University of Wisconsin - Madison
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECE/CS 552 Introduction to Computer Architecture

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Fall 2011

• Time and Place: 9:55 - 10:45 AM, MWF, 2535 Engr. Hall (lecture)
  5:00 - 7:00 PM, Monday, 2540 Engr. Hall (Opt. discussion, please note time chang)
• Instructors: Yu Hen Hu , 2413 Engr. Hall,
  Tel.262-1073, E-mail: hu@engr.wisc.edu
  
• Credits: 3
• Prerequisite: ECE 352, ECE 354 or consent of instructor. Students are expected to have knowledge in Logic design and Boolean algebra, Assembly language programming, Ability to use computer aided design tools.
• Goals: It is expected that students at the end of this course will be able to design a stored program micro-computer using logic gates, flip-flops, and components from a given library of digital components.
• Topics:
  • Introduction, basic computer organization
  • Instruction formats, instruction sets and their design
  • ALU design: Adders, subtracters, logic operations
  • Datapath design
  • Control design: Hardwired control, microprogrammed control
  • More on arithmetic: Multiplication, division, floating point arithmetic
  • RISC machines
  • Pipelining
  • Memory systems and error detection and error correction coding
  • I/O
• Textbook: D. Patterson and J. Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 4th Ed., 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0123744937.
• Computer Usage: Some computer projects will be assigned during the semester which will require using computer aided design tool Quartus.
• Project: Students will be required to do an individual design project which will use CAD tool Quartus to design a pipelined data path.
• Grading Policy (tentative):
  • 20 % Five to six homework assignments
  • 25 % Midterm examination
  • 35 % Final Examination (Dec. 21, 2011, 2:45 - 4:45 PM)
  • 20 % Project

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