Department of Computer
Engineering
204521 Digital System
Architecture
Lecturer: Pradondet Nilagupta
Email: pom@nontri.ku.ac.th
Homepage: http://www.cpe.ku.ac.th/~pom/courses/205521/204521.html
Phone: 9428555 ext 1401, 1415
office: rm.406
Building 15 Engineering Faculty
Office
hours: Wed. 4-6 PM. or make an appointment
Lecture
hr: Wed. 6-9 PM.
Main Textbook (required)
Computer Architecture a
Quantitative Approach 3rd Edition, John L. Hennessy,
David A. Patterson, Morgan Kaufmann 2003.
References Textbook
Advance Computer Architectures A design Space Approach, Dezso
Sima, Terence Fountain, Peter Kacsuk,
Addison-Wesley, 1997
Computer System Design
and Architecture,
Vincent P. Heuring, Harry F. Jordan, Addison-Wesley
1997.
Computer Organization, V. Carl Hamacher, Zvonko G. Vranesic, Safwat G. Zaky,, McGraw-Hill, 1996.
Class Schedule
Class
1 Introduction,
Course Outline, Grading System
Class
2 Fundamentals
of Computer Design (Chapter 1)
Class
3,4 Instruction
Set Principle (Chapter 2)
Class
5,6 Pipelining:
Basic Intermediate Concepts
Class
7,8 Instruction
Level Parallelism (Chapter 3,4)
Class
9 Computer
Arithmetic (Appendix H)
Class
10,11 Memory
Hierarchy Design (Chapter 5)
Class12 Storage
System (Chapter 7)
Class
13 Vector
Processor (Appendix G)
Class
14 Presentation
Class
15 Presentation
Grading Policy
4 Homework Assignment 20%
Paper Presentation
10%
Midterm 35%
Final Exam 35%