University of Jordan

Computer Engineering Department

CPE 431: Performance Evaluation and Modeling

Fall 2005

Instructor Dr. Gheith Abandah
Email abandah@ju.edu.jo
Home page http://www.abandah.com/gheith
Office Computer Engineering 405
Office hours
bulletSunday 13:00-14:00
bulletTuesday 10:00-11:00
No. of credit hrs 3
Prerequisites CPE 232
Time and room
bulletSection 1: Mon and Wed 12:30-14:00, EE 101
Textbook Raj Jain, The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis, Wiley, 1991.
References
  1. Patterson and Hennessy. Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, 2nd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 1997.

  2. Hennessy, Patterson, and Goldberg. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 3rd ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 2002.

Grading
Assignments 10%
Mid-Term Exam 30%
Second Exam 10%
Final Exam 50%
Tentative outline
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Overview of Performance Evaluation

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Measurement Techniques and Tools

Mid-Term exam

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Probability Theory and Statistics

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Experimental Design and Analysis

Second exam

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Simulation

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Queuing Models

Final exam

Handouts Assignment 1 Due 26/10/2005

Assignment 2 Due 7/11/2005

Assignment 3 (Due December 21, 2005)

  A good reference for Verilog is Hyde's Handbook on Verilog HDL

  VeriLogger Pro from SynaptiCAD is a good Verilog simulation environment.

  Use the following library in your Verilog simulations: lib431.v

Assignment 4 (Due December 28, 2005)

Assignment 5 (Due January 4, 2006) Assignment5.zip

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