Computer Organization, Fall 2008
ANNOUNCEMENT
- The "For More Practice" problems can be found
in the accompany CD of the text book.
INSTRUCTOR: Chien-Nan Liu
TEACHING ASSISTANT
TEXT BOOK
- David A. Patterson, and John L. Hennessy,
"Computer Organization and Design -- The Hardware/Software Interface",
3rd Edition, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, Inc., 2005.
COURSE SCHEDULE
- Computer Abstractions and Technology
- Instructions: Language of the Computer
- Arithmetic for Computers
- Assessing and Understanding Performance
- The Processor: Datapath and Control
- Enhancing Performance with Pipelining
- Exploiting Memory Hierarchy
LECTURE NOTES
HOMEWORKS
Homework 1 (Due: Oct. 2, 2008)
Homework 2: 2.15 (Due: Oct. 9, 2008)
Homework 3: 2.34, 2.35 (Due: Oct. 16, 2008)
Homework 4: 3.7, 3.28(c) (Due: Oct. 23, 2008)
Homework 5: 3.35, 3.38, 3.42(b) (Due: Oct. 30, 2008)
Homework 6: 4.4, 4.38, 4.39, 4.40 (Due: Nov. 6, 2008)
Homework 7: 5.21, 5.25 (Due: Nov. 20, 2008)
Homework 8: 5.35, 5.41 (Due: Dec. 4, 2008)
FINAL PROJECTS
Description (Due: Jan. 18, 2009)
Grading guideline
For any questions, send e-mails to
jimmy@ee.ncu.edu.tw
Last modified: Nov. 20, 2008