Computer Organization

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Computer Organization Design

• (4541.636)

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Syllabus

• Classroom 301-201
• Class hours Tue/Thu 230-345pm
• Instructor Prof. Lee, Hyuk-Jae
• Office 104-1(313)
• Phone [phone]
• E-mail hjlee_at_capp.snu.ac.kr
• Office hours Tue/Thu 515-600pm
• Appointment by e-mail recommended
• Web-page http//capp.snu.ac.kr ? Lecture
• TA To be announced
• Text Computer Architecture A Quantitative
  Approach, 4th Ed.
• Language English
• Pre-requisite Undergraduate computer
  organization class

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Contents

• This course is intended to introduce the basic
  principles in design of computer machine
  architecture. Major topics include performance
  and cost analysis, pipelining processing, dynamic
  and static instruction scheduling, branch
  prediction, hierarchical memory design, and
  multiprocessor architectures. A quantitative
  approach is used with emphasis on
  cost-performance-power trade-offs achieving good
  engineering design.

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Schedule

• Week 1 Fundamentals of Computer Design/ Cost,
  price and performance
• Week 2 Dependence/hazards dynamic schedule
• Week 3 Branch prediction
• Week 4 Dynamic scheduling
• Week 5 Multiple issues/speculation
• Week 6 Limitations of ILP/Term project
  announcement
• Week 7 Parallel architecture
• Week 8 Symmetric Shared-Memory Architectures/
  ILP/midterm exam

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Schedule

• Week 9 Cache coherence protocol
• Week 10 Distributed Shared-Memory architecture/
  directory-based cache coherence protocol
• Week 11 Synchronization and memory
  consistency/Term project plan presentation
• Week 12 Cache review/Cache performance
  optimization
• Week 13 Memory organization
• Week 14 Storage system /Final Exam
  (Comprehensive)
• Week 15 Term project final presentation

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Grading Policy

• Midterm exam 25
• Final exam 40
• Term project 25
• Homework Class Participation 10