UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer Architecture (ECE568)        Fall 2008

• Outline:

  • I. Introduction
  • II. Performance Analysis (Ch.1 +)
  • III. Processor Design: Pipelining (App.A, Ch.3-4)
  • IV. Memory Design: Memory Hierarchy, Cache Memory, Secondary Memory (Ch.5)
  • V. Storage Systems and Input/Output (Ch.7)
  • VI. Power-Aware Computing
  • VII. Vector Computers (App.G)

• Prerequisites: ECE 232 (Hardware Organization & Design) or an equivalent course.
• Recommended Textbook: D.A. Patterson and J.L. Hennessy, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 4th edition, Morgan-Kaufmann, 2007.
• Recommended reading:
  • J. P. Shen and M. Lipasti, Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors, McGraw-Hill, 2005.
    
  • M. J. Flynn, Computer Architecture: Pipelined and Parallel Processor Design, Jones and Bartlett, 1995.
    
  • V. P. Heuring and H. F. Jordan, Computer Systems Design and Architecture, Addison-Wesley, 1997.
    
  • K. Hwang, Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability, Programmability, McGraw-Hill, 1993.
• Instructor: Prof. Israel Koren, KEB 309E, Tel. 545-2643
  Email: koren at ecs.umass.edu
• Office Hours: 4:00 - 5:00 PM, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• Course web page: OWL assignments' due dates and other details regarding the course will be available at:
  www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/koren/ece568.
• Grading:
  • Midterm I - 25% (Mon. Oct. 20, 5:00-7:00pm)
  • Midterm II - 25% (Mon. Nov. 24, 5:00-7:00pm)
  • OWL quizzes - 15%
  • Final Exam. - 35%