[2021 Fall] Computer Architecture

Course Information

Course Computer Architecture Department Computer Science and Engineering
Office Hours Wed. 14:00 ~ 17:00 Course No. and Class 20493-02
Hours 3.0 Academic Credit 3.0
Professor Yoon, Myung Kuk Office Jinseonmi-Gwan, 213
Telephone (82)-2-3277-3819 E-Mail myungkuk.yoon at ewha.ac.kr
Value of Competence Pursuit of Knowledge(80), Creative Convergence(20) Keyword CPU Design, Memory Design, System I/O
Class Time (TUE) 17:00 ~ 18:15
(FRI) 15:30 ~ 16:45

Course Description

In this class, students will learn about the basic concepts of computer architecture, including Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), CPU processor design, and memory hierarchy.
To improve understanding, students will do several programming assignments that are partially related to the computer architecture concepts.

Prerequisites

A prior digital logic design course is recommended.
Basic knowledge of the C/C++ programming language is required.

Course Format

Lecture Discussion/Presentation Experiment/Practicum Field Study Other
80% 0% 20% 0% 0%

Course Objectives

In this class, students will be introduced to:

  1. Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)
  2. Arithmetic (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, etc.)
  3. CPU Processor Design (Pipeline, Instruction-Level Parallelism, etc.)
  4. Memory Hierarchy (Memory Technology, Cache, etc.)
  5. Parallel Processor Design (SISD, MIMD, SIMD, SPMD, and Vector)
  6. And more topics if time permits

Evaluation System

Evaluation: Relative + Absolute

Midterm Exam Final Exam Quizzes Presentations Projects Assignment Participation Other
30% 30% 20% 0% 0% 20% 0% 0%

Evaluation of group projects may include peer evaluations

Explain of evaluation system

  1. About 35% of students: A (Including A+/A/A-)
  2. About 45% of students: B (Including B+/B/B-)
  3. About 20% of students: C and below

* If your total score does not exceed 15%, you will get an "F" regardless of the percentage above
* If you are absent more than 5 times, you will get an "F"
* If you are late twice, you are considered absent once

Required Materials

  • Computer Organization and Design RISC-V Edition: The Hardware Software Interface

    David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy
    Edition: Second (2E)
    ISBN-13: 978-0128203316
    ISBN-10: 0128203315

Supplementary Materials

NONE

Optional Additional Readings

NONE

Course Contents

Week Date Topics & Materials Assignement & Quiz
Week #01 2021-09-03 (FRI) CH #00: Introduction of Computer Architecture Class
2021-09-07 (TUE)
Week #02 2021-09-10 (FRI) CH #01: Computer Abstractions and Technology
2021-09-14 (TUE)
Week #03 2021-09-17 (FRI)
2021-09-21 (TUE) CH #02: Instructions: Language of the Computer Recoreded (Thanksgiving)
Week #04 2021-09-24 (FRI)
2021-09-28 (TUE)
Week #05 2021-10-01 (FRI) Quiz #01
2021-10-05 (TUE)
Week #06 2021-10-08 (FRI) CH #03: Arithmetic for Computers
2021-10-12 (TUE)
Week #07 2021-10-15 (FRI)
2021-10-19 (TUE)
Week #08 2021-10-22 (FRI)
2021-10-26 (TUE)
Week #09 2021-10-29 (FRI) MIDTERM EXAM (OFFLINE EXAM)
2021-11-02 (TUE) CH #04: The RISC-V Processor
Week #10 2021-11-05 (FRI)
2021-11-09 (TUE)
Week #11 2021-11-12 (FRI)
2021-11-16 (TUE)
Week #12 2021-11-19 (FRI) CH #05: Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Hierarchy Quiz #02
2021-11-23 (TUE)
Week #13 2021-11-26 (FRI)
2021-11-30 (TUE)
Week #14 2021-12-03 (FRI)
2021-12-07 (TUE) CH #06: Parallel Processors from Client to Cloud
Week #15 2021-12-10 (FRI)
2021-12-14 (TUE) Class Summary
Week #16 2021-12-17 (FRI) NO CLASS
2021-12-21 (TUE) FINAL EXAM (OFFLINE EXAM)

Course Policies

For laboratory courses, all students are required to complete lab safety training.

Special Accommodations

According to the University regulation #57, students with disabilities can request special accommodation related to attendance, lectures, assignments, and/or tests by contacting the course professor at the beginning of semester. Based on the nature of the students’ requests, students can receive support for such accommodations from the course professor and/or from the Support Center for Students with Disabilities (SCSD).

Extra Information

The contents of this syllabus are not final—they may be updated.