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====== COMPUTER ORGANIZATION  ======
<fc red>** Summer 2016 **</fc>

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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 the stack, the heap, and the caches, to the CPU's datapath and control. The lecture coverage is augmented by labs that provide hands-on experience in MIPS and Verilog.

===== Expected Learning Outcomes =====

By the end of the course, you are expected to be able to:

  * Translate a given high-level program to assembly/machine language
      * Represent numbers, characters, and other forms of data in binary
      * Express logic using assembly language instructions
      * Utilize registers, the stack, the heap, and the data segment to store data
      * Encode assembly language instructions in machine language format

  * Build a CPU out of basic building blocks such as gates and flip-flops
      * Build the ALU using gates and Verilog
      * Design the CPU's datapath and control
      * Implement a pipeline and handle its hazards
      * Augment the CPU with a cache

  * Assess the end-to-end performance
      * Identify the key performance drivers and their physical limits
      * Compare and contrast the RISC and CISC approaches
      * Compute the throughput of a pipelined CPU for a given code fragment
      * Analyze the effect of a cache of a given specs on the system's performance

===== Instructor & Office Hours =====

  * Instructor: Gulzar Khuwaja

  * Lectures: W 7:00-10:00 pm in LSB 105
  * Labs: M 7:00-10:00 pm in LAS 1006

  * Office Hours: W 5:30–6:30 pm in LAS 2015
  * Office Phone: (416) 736-2100 x 70139 (available only during office hours)

  * Email: khuwaja@cse.yorku.ca
  * Email Filter: The string CSE2021/X in the Subject field, where X is your username on red@cse

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

  * Davoudi, Heidar
  * Jia, Meng
  * Moury, Sanjida
  * Pan, Hengyue       
                      
^      TIME      ^ OFFICE	 ^    NAME       ^  EMAIL  ^  TYPE OF HELP OFFERED                                                       ^
| Monday 6:00pm - 7:00pm | LAS 3027 | Meng Jia | mjia@cse.yorku.ca | Any question about labs | 

===== Textbooks =====

**Required** (available in the bookstore and on reserve in Steacie):
  * Computer Organization and Design, 5th Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface by D. Patterson and J. Hennessy, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers (2014).

**References**:
  * MIPS Assembly Language Programming, by Robert Britton, Pearson Education (2003)
  * 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)