CS304 Computer Architecture
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| Course Code | Course Title | Weekly Hours* | ECTS | Weekly Class Schedule | ||||||
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| CS304 | Computer Architecture | 3 | 2 | 6 | Mon. 16:00-16:50, Tue. 10:00-11:50 | |||||
| Prerequisite | CS105 | It is a prerequisite to | ||||||||
| Lecturer | Khaldoun Al Khalidi | Office Hours / Room / Phone | Monday: 13:00-14:30 Tuesday: 13:00-14:30 Thursday: 9:00-11:00 |
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| kalkhalidi@ius.edu.ba | ||||||||||
| Assistant | Harun Hadžo | Assistant E-mail | hhadzo@ius.edu.ba | |||||||
| Course Objectives | This course is concerned with the structure and behavior of the various functional modules of a digital computer and the reasoning behind their interaction to provide the processing needs of the user. It covers general feature of MIPS instruction set, Arithmetic floating point operations, performance evaluation using Amdahl's law, pipelining, data and branch hazards, and memory. | |||||||||
| Textbook | David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy Computer organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, 5th Edition, 2013. | |||||||||
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| Learning Outcomes | After successful completion of the course, the student will be able to: | |||||||||
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| Teaching Methods | Class discussions with examples. Lab exercises and quizzes. | |||||||||
| Teaching Method Delivery | Face-to-face | Teaching Method Delivery Notes | ||||||||
| WEEK | TOPIC | REFERENCE | ||||||||
| Week 1 | Introduction and Overview | Notes | ||||||||
| Week 2 | Digital Systems and Information | Notes | ||||||||
| Week 3 | Combinational Logic Circuits | Notes | ||||||||
| Week 4 | Combinational Logic Design | Notes | ||||||||
| Week 5 | Sequential Circuits | Notes | ||||||||
| Week 6 | Midterm | |||||||||
| Week 7 | Instruction Set Architecture - Arithmetic and Logical | Chapter 2 | ||||||||
| Week 8 | Instruction Set Architecture - Memory and Control | Chapter 2 | ||||||||
| Week 9 | Performance and Pipelining | Chapter 4 | ||||||||
| Week 10 | Pipelining Hazards | Chapter 4 | ||||||||
| Week 11 | Memory hierarchy - Caches | Chapter 5 | ||||||||
| Week 12 | Memory hierarchy - Caches (writing) | Chapter 5 | ||||||||
| Week 13 | Parallel processing and multicore | Chapter 6 | ||||||||
| Week 14 | Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) | Chapter 6 | ||||||||
| Week 15 | General Review | |||||||||
| Assessment Methods and Criteria | Evaluation Tool | Quantity | Weight | Alignment with LOs |
| Final Exam | 1 | 35 | 1,2,3,4,5 | |
| Semester Evaluation Components | ||||
| Midterm exam | 1 | 25 | 1,2,3,4 | |
| Quizzes | 4 | 20 | 1,2,3,5 | |
| Projects | 2 | 20 | 3,4 | |
| *** ECTS Credit Calculation *** | ||||
| Activity | Hours | Weeks | Student Workload Hours | Activity | Hours | Weeks | Student Workload Hours | |||
| Lecture Hours | 3 | 15 | 45 | Quizzes | 4 | 4 | 16 | |||
| Projects | 10 | 2 | 20 | In-term exam study | 11 | 1 | 11 | |||
| Final exam study | 16 | 1 | 16 | Home study | 3 | 14 | 42 | |||
| Total Workload Hours = | 150 | |||||||||
| *T= Teaching, P= Practice | ECTS Credit = | 6 | ||||||||
| Course Academic Quality Assurance: Semester Student Survey | Last Update Date: 08/04/2024 | |||||||||