University of Jordan

Computer Engineering Department

CPE 432: Computer Design

Spring 2010

 

Instructor Dr. Gheith Abandah
Email abandah@ju.edu.jo
Home page http://www.abandah.com/gheith
Office Computer Engineering 405
Office hours
bulletMon 11:00 - 12:00
bulletTue 12:00 - 1:00
bulletThu 10:00 - 11:00
No. of credit hrs 3
Prerequisites CPE 335: Computer Organization
Time and room
bulletSection 1: Sun, Tue, and Thu 11:00-12:00, CPE 001
bulletSection 2: Mon and Wed 3:30-5:00, CE 002
Textbook Patterson and Hennessy. Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, 4th ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 2009.
References

  1. Hennessy and Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 4th ed., Morgan Kaufmann, 2007.

  2. D. Culler and J.P. Singh with A. Gupta. Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.

  3. J. Hayes. Computer Architecture and Organization, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1998.
Grading
Mid-Term Exam 30%
3 Homeworks and 2 Quizzes: 3 Marks for each homework, and 11 marks for the 2 quizzes. 20%
Final Exam 50%
Policies
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Attendance is required.

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All submitted work must be yours.

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Cheating will not be tolerated.

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Homeworks are due on exam or quiz dates.

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This course requires significant effort.
Tentative outline
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Introduction

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Measuring and Summarizing Performance (1.4-1.10)

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Advanced Instruction-Level Parallelism (4.10-4.15)

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Memory Hierarchy (5.1-5.13)

Midterm Exam

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Storage and I/O (6.1-6.14)

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Multicores, Multiprocessors, and Clusters (7.1-7.14)

Final Exam

Special Dates
Sun 7 Feb 2010 Classes Begin
Sun 28 Feb 2010 Homework 1 Announcement
Sun 7 Mar 2010 Quiz 1 and Homework 1 Due
Thu 25 Mar 2010 Homework 2 Announcement
Sat 3 Apr 2010 Midterm Exam and Homework 2 Due (11:00-12:00)
Tue 27 Apr 2010 Homework 3 Announcement
Tue 4 May 2010 Quiz 2 and Homework 3 Due
Wed 19 May 2010 Last Lecture
Sun 23 May 2010 Final Exam (9:00-11:00) (tentative)
Handouts

Slides

  1. Course Introduction

  2. Technology Trends and Performance

  3. Pipelining and Instruction Level Parallelism, Handling Exceptions

  4. Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Hierarchy

  5. Storage and Other IO Topics

  6. Multicores, Multiprocessors, and Clusters

Homeworks

    HW1: Due in class on the first lecture of Week starting on Mar 7, 2010. Must be handwritten.

        Chapter 1: 3.4-5, 4.1-2, 4.4, 5.6, 7.1, 7.4, 8.1, 9.1-2, 10.1-3, 11.1-2, 12.1-3

        Chapter 4: 19.1-3(a), 20.1-2(a), 20.4(a), 23.3(b), 24.1-3(a & b). Solution (password protected)

    HW2: Due on Sat 3/4/2010 (midterm exam day). Must be handwritten.

        Chapter 4: 29.3-5(a), 30.1(a), 30.4(a)

        Chapter 5: 2.1-3(a), 3.1(a), 4.1-5(a), 6.5(a), 7.2(a), 7.4(a). Solution (password protected)

    HW3: Due in class on the second lecture of Week starting on May 2, 2010. Must be handwritten.

        Chapter 5: 8.1-3(a), 10.1(a), 11.1-2(a), 17.1-2(a)

        Chapter 6: 2.1-2(a), 3.1-2(a), 11.1-4(a), 14.1-3(a), 15.1-5(a). Solution (password protected)

Quizzes and Exams

Quiz 1A was given on Sunday 7/3/2010, Solution

Quiz 1B was given on Monday 8/3/2010, Solution

The midterm exam was given on Saturday 3/4/2010, Solution

Quiz 2A was given on Tuesday 4/5/2010, Solution

Quiz 2B was given on Wednesday 5/5/2010, Solution

 

Grades as of 18/5/2010 including all term work out of 50%.