CDA4101 Section 01a
Principles of Programming Languages
Spring 2021

Grade Calculation
The grade for the course will be based on two types of assesments: effort evaluation and exams. The total of all points is 201.
Three Effort Evaluations
GitHub Account
Create a GitHub account and send me an email from your FIU email account with your GitHub user name. I will assign you a private repository. Post examples from class, problem set solutions, and your own experimentations. Upload text files or images. Post every day for maximum points.
An effort evaluation is a self-evaluation submitted by each student. Summarize your efforts to learn the material GitHub for the current problem set. I will compare your evaluation with your actual postings in GitHub and assign a grade. If you do not submit an evaluation, you will not receive any points for your coding contribution.
Effort Evaluation Weight		7 points each
Three Exams
Each exam will have practical and theoretical problems.
Exam Weight		60 points each
Grading Scale
The grade for the course will be based on the following scale. The scale is based on the sum of your scores on the coding evaluations, quizzes and exams.
Scale		A: 171; A-: 161; B+: 151; B: 141; B-: 131; C+: 121; C: 111; D: 101
Text
		Structured Computer Organization, 6/E Tannenbaum, Andrew S. ISBN-10: 0132916525; ISBN-13: 9780132916523
Room and Time
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Attendance I recommend that you attend every class. Those who attend class have a better chance of passing the course.

Homework I will assign homework. The homework will not be collected and will not be graded. The exams will include a large amount of material based on the homework assignments. You may work together on the assignments, it will probably help you to understand them.

Prerequisites

If you do not meet the prerequisites, you will be dropped from the course during the first week. Swap out of the course now to avoid late fees.

If you do not meet the prerequisites, you will be dropped from the course during the first week. Swap out of the course now to avoid late fees.

• CDA3101: minimum grade is a C.
• COP3337: minimum grade is C.
• MAD2104 or COT3100: minimum grade is C.

Course Content

• Review: Multilevel Computers
  • The Digital Logic Level
  • The Microarchitecture Level
  • The Instruction Set Architecture Level
  • The Operating System Level
  • The Assembly Language Level
  • Computer Families
    • x86
    • ARM
    • AVR
• Computer Systems
  • Processors
  • Primary Memory
  • Secondary Memory
  • Input/Ouput
• The Digital Logic Level: The topics on digital circuits were covered in CDA3103.
  • Gates and Boolean Algebra
  • Basic Digital Logic
  • CPU Chips and Buses
  • Example CPU Chips
  • Example Buses
  • Interfacing
• The Microarchitecture Level
  • An Example Microarchitecture
  • An Example ISA: IJVM
  • An Example Implementation
  • Design of the Microarchitecture Level
  • Improving Performance
  • Examples of the Microarchitecture Level
• Instruction Set: Most of these topics were covered in CDA3103.
  • Core i7
  • OMAP4430 ARM
  • ATmega168 AVR
• Assembly Level: Most of these topics were covered in CDA3013.
  • Linking and loading
• Parallel Computer Architectures
  • On-chip Parallelism
  • Coprocessors
  • Shared-memory Multiprocessors
  • Message-passing Multicomputers
  • Grid Computing

Course Objectives

• Master the design of memory, ALU, control unit, and design of microprogram
• Be familiar with cache architectures, branch predictions and scheduling of multiple instruction issue
• Be familiar with instruction set architecture, interrupts, and traps
• Be familiar with CISC and RISC architectures, and parallel computer configurations
• Be exposed to shared-memory and taxonomy of parallel architectures