General Information

Instructor

Manton M . Matthews
3A53 Swearingen
Phone: 777-3285
Office Hours: MW 11:15-12:30PM
 Email: mm at sc in the domain edu

Teaching Assistant

• Xiaopeng Li, SWGN 3D41, xl4

Department Syllabus 513 This is the syllabus template that was officially approved by the CSCE faculty.

Main text and References

"Computer Architecture," 5th edition, Hennessey and Patterson, Elsevier, 2012.

Apogee == Distance Education Links

Course Outcomes

1. Describe the principles of computer architecture and organization. {tests}
2. Describe the techniques and principles for the development of high performance computer systems. {tests}
3. Describe the details of extant computer architectures. {tests}
4. Quantitatively analyze aspects of computer architecture and draw conclusions about their performance. {homework, projects, tests}

GOAL The goal is to provide foundational knowledge of Computer Archiecture with a particular emphasis on its influence on design of efficient programs. Topics include:

• Quantitaive approach to computer architecture
• Review of the fundamentals of Pipelining, Instruction sets, and Memory Hierarchy
• Instruction Level parallelism
• Loop unrolling and static techniques
• Dynamic schedling
• Limits on Intsruction level Parallelism
• Multithreading, multiprocessing
• Memory Hierarchy design
• Warehouse scale computing.

Date	Significance
October 9	Test 1
Monday, October 16,	Last day to withdrawal without WF
November 13	Test 2
Friday, December 11 - 9:00 a.m.	Final Exam

Link to the Exam Schedule

Policies

Grading policy:
The final grade will be based on two midterms, assignments and the final exam, according to the following weights:

• Assignments and Quizzes: 35%
• Two Tests: 20% each
• Final: 25%

Academic Integrity