EE5123: Computer Architecture
Course Syllabus (Fall 2015)
Instructor: Wei-Ming Lin
Office: BSE 1.512
Office Hours: 3:00 – 3:50pm Tue/Thur (or by appointment)
Phone: 458-5529
E-mail: weiming.lin@utsa.edu
Website: http://engineering.utsa.edu/˜wlin/
Course Outline:
Computer Design Methodologies, Performance Analysis, Computer Arithmetic, CPU and Instruction Set Design, Control Design, Memory Organization, Pipelining, and introduction to
Vector Processing and Superscalar CPU, I/O
Prerequisites:
Logic Design, High-level language (e.g. C) and Assembly language
Text: (recommended)
Hennessy & Patterson, Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach, 3rd (or 4th) Edition,
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc.
Course Outline:
• Review of Logic Design (1 lecture)
• Number Systems (2 lectures)
• Computer Arithmetic (3 lectures)
• Instruction Set (3 lectures)
• CPU Datapath (4 lectures)
• Control Unit (3 lectures)
• Memory (4 lectures)
• Pipelining (3 lectures)
• Advanced CPU (2 lectures)
Grading Policy:
1st Exam (5th/6th week)
2nd Exam (10th/11th week)
Research Project (or Lab Assignments)
Homework+Quiz+Attendance
Final
Other Important Policies:
• No make-up quizzes.
20%
20%
20% (subject to change due to the class size)
20%
20%
• All exams are close-book unless specified otherwise. Make-up exam is given only under special
extenuating circumstances and up to the discretion of the instructor.
• You are required to attend every class. Exception is given only if you notify the instructor with a
legitimate reason in advance.
• All assignments are due at the beginning of the class time on the due day unless specified otherwise.
No late turn-in will be accepted.
• All assignments need to be bound well and arranged in the correct order before being turned in.
Otherwise, 20 percent of total points will be marked off.
• All assignments should include your work, or else no credit will be given.
• No copying is allowed on any assignment. No credit will be given to both copier’s and copiee’s
work.
• All behaviors of academic dishonesty will be handled according to university policy.
• Please refer to the University’s common syllabus information at http://utsa.edu/syllabus