CDA4101 Section
Structured Computer Organization

Text
		Structured Computer Organization, 6/E Tannenbaum, Andrew S. ISBN-10: 0132916525; ISBN-13: 9780132916523
Room and Time

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.

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