Professor: Nagarajan Prabakar (naa-ga-raa-jan pra-baa-kar)
	Phone: 305-348-2033
	E-mail: prabakar@cis.fiu.edu
	Office: ECS-382
	Office Hours: ECS-382 (Jan 7 - Apr 24) Mon/Wed: 2:00-3:15pm,5:00-6:00pm, 9:15-10:00pm or   by appointment

Catalog Description: Covers the levels of organization in a computer: Design of memory, buses, ALU, CPU; design of microprogram. Covers virtual memory, I/O, multiple processes, CISC, RISC and parallel architectures.

Prerequisite: CDA-3103, COP-3337 and COT-3100

Textbook: Structured Computer Organization, 6th Edition
                  Andrew S. Tanenbaum
                  Prentice Hall (ISBN: 0-13-291652-5)

 Detailed Syllabus (pdf file)

Prerequisites Topics:

• Digital logic and Boolean algebra
• Machine level representation of data
• Assembly level machine organization
• Fundamental data structures

Course Outcomes:

• Master the design of advanced combinational circuits
• Master the design of memory and the ALU
• Master control unit design and RISC architectures
• Be familiar with cache architectures, branch predictions, scheduling of multiple instruction issue and flow control
• Be exposed to parallel architectures, including configurations, shared-memory, message passing, and taxonomy

Grading:

  5% participation

20% quizzes

25% projects

25% midterm exam

25% final exam

I will use the following relative grading scheme.

Other Issues:

I expect you to maintain a high level of academic integrity in this course. Please read FIU's Code of Academic Integrity. You are allowed to consult other books in solving assignment problems, or to discuss the problems with other students, but you must do your assignments on your own.

For each assignmnet, you must upload the soft copy of the assignment through Moodle before the deadline and submit a printed copy of the assignment along with the signed originality declaration, in class on the due date.

I will grant incompletes only in extreme circumstances, such as medical emergencies with proper documentation.

I expect you to attend class regularly and promptly, and to participate in discussions. Feel free to ask questions -- if something is unclear to you, it is probably unclear to others as well.

System: John C. Comfort Lab (ECS 241)

PC workstations and SQL servers

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