====== COMPUTER ORGANIZATION  ======
<html><font color="red" size="3"><b>Winter 2009</b></font></html>


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===== Description  =====

CSE2021 is a unique course in that it bridges the gap between software (S/W) and hardware (H/W) and exposes the roles played by the operating system (O/S) and the digital logic (D/L) circuits. It relies on a hierarchy of abstractions to present the material in layers, switching roles from "using" to "implementing" at every stage. It follows the journey of instructions from high-level to assembly and machine code, through RAM and caches, to the the CPU's datapath and control. The lecture coverage is augmented by labs that provide hands-on experience in MIPS and Verilog.


===== Instructor & Office Hours=====
  * <html><font color="#7a40A0"><b>Professor: Hamzeh Roumani</b></font></html> -- [[http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~roumani|Home Page]].
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  * Lectures: MW 17:30-19:00 in SLH-E.
  * Office Hours: After lecture or by appointment.

  * Lab-01: M 10:00-13:00 in CSEB 1004.
  * Lab-02: W 10:00-13:00 in CSEB 1004.


===== Textbooks =====
**Required** (available in the bookstore and on reserve in Steacie):
  * //Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware / Software Interface, 4th edition// by D. Patterson and J. Hennessy, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (2009).


**References**:
  * //Structured Computer Organization, 5th edition,// by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall (2006)

  * //MIPS RISC Architecture//, by G. Kane & J. Heinrich, Prentice Hall (1992)

  * //Computer Organization, 5th Edition,// by V.C. Hamacher, Z.G. Vranesic & S.G. Zaky, McGraw-Hill (2002)

  * //Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance, 7th edition, // by William Stallings, Prentice Hall (2006) 


===== Teaching Assistants =====

  * Ron Tal, <rontal> 
  * Hoang Lan Nguyen, <lan>

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