CS 401

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

SYLLABUS

Course Organization:

Instructor: Dr.Wen-Chi Hou
Office: FANER 2134
Office Phone: 453-6040
E-Mail Address: hou@cs.siu.edu
Office Hours: MWF: 10-11am, 2-3pm.

TA: Dabin Ding
Office: FANER 3131
Office Phone: 453-6037
E-Mail Address:dabin@siu.edu
Office Hours: TR: 2pm-4pm

Course Web Site: The homeworks and other announcements will be made available through the course web site. There will also be a Gradebook where you can learn your grades of exams and Homeworks. Each of you will be given a username and password to access the Gradebook. It is your responsibility to check the announcements on the web site frequently to follow what is new about the course.

Required Textbook:

"Computer Architecture" , Mehdi Zargham, Prentice Hall, 1996.

Course Outline :

1	Classification of Designs
2	Von Neumann Architecture
3	Pipelining
4	Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC)
5	Interconnection Networks
6	Multiprocessors and Multicomputers

Textbook Link:

Reference Book:
"Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, J. Hennessy & D Patterson, 2006

Assignments: Assignments will be given during the semester. These will be simple questions from your textbook.

Grading:

Homework : 30%

Three one-hour tests : 70%

Late Assignments: No late submissions will be accepted. All assignments are due by the end of class on the date established by the instructor .

Atendance: It is essential that students attend all weekly meetings. Should you have to miss a class, it is your responsibility to find out what was discussed in the class.

Exam Policy: The exams will be closed-book and closed-notes.