University of Jordan

Computer Engineering Department

CPE 232

Computer Organization

Spring 2003
Instructor Dr. Gheith Abandah
Email abandah@ju.edu.jo
Home page http://www.abandah.com/gheith
Office Computer Engineering 406
Office hours Mon, Tue and Wed 14:00-15:00
No. of credit hrs 3
Prerequisites CPE 231
Time and room
bulletSection 1: Sun, Tue, and Thu at 9:00-10:00 in EE 003
bulletSection 2: Sun, Tue, and Thu at 8:00-9:00 in CE 104
bulletDiscussion 1: Tue 13:00-14:00
bulletDiscussion 2: Sat 9:00-10:00
Textbooks

Patterson and Hennessy. Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, 2nd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.
References

  1. Hennessy and Patterson. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 2nd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 1995.

  2. J. Hayes. Computer Architecture and Organization, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1998.

  3. K. Hwang, Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability, Programmability, McGraw-Hill, 1993.

  4. M. Mano. Computer System Architecture, 3rd ed., Prentice Hall, 1993.
Grading
First Exam 25%
Second Exam 25%
Final Exam 50%
Tentative outline
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Introduction

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Instruction Sets

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Computer Arithmetic

First exam

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Datapath Design

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Control Design

Second exam

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Pipelining

Final exam