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CSE661 –
Advanced Computer Architecture - Fall 2008 Syracuse University L.C. Smith
College Engineering and Computer Science
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Catalog Description
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Advanced computer architecture
including discussion of instruction set design (RISC and CISC), virtual
memory system design, memory hierarchies, cache memories, pipelining, vector
processing, I/O subsystems, co-processors, and multiprocessor architectures.
Case studies of current systems. |
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Instructor
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Dr. Ehat Ercanli. CST 4-297. eercanli@syr.edu. 443-3564. Office Hours: T TH
11:00am-1:00pm. |
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TA
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TBA |
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Meeting Times
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Tue and Thu from 8:00
to 9:20am at HL 107. |
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Required Textbook
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Computer Architecture
– A Quantitative Approach by J. Hennessy and D. Patterson, 4th
Edition, MKP, 2006. |
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References
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Parallel
Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach by David E. Culler, Jaswinder P. Singh, with Anoop
Gupta, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998. |
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Grading
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Homework, Pop quizzes:
30%; Two Midterm Exams: 40%. Final Exam: 30%. |
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Homework
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Homework assignments are
to be submitted in lecture on the assigned due date. No late assignments will
be accepted. You are expected to complete the homework individually.
However, you can discuss assignments and solutions with each other, but all
work submitted must be the sole work of the author. |
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Exams
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All exams must be
taken at the scheduled time unless a previous arrangement (with a good
reason) has been made with the instructor. |
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World Wide Web
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Our class web page will
be updated frequently with lecture slides (when possible), homework
assignments and solutions, and tests and solutions, and more interesting
stuff. So utilize it! |
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Attendance
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You are expected to
attend each class punctually and remain for the entire class period;
tardiness disturbs everyone. You need to inform the instructor in advance if
you expect to miss a class or leave the course before the end of the
semester. If you miss class your absence will be excused by the instructor
only if a doctor's certificate or other evidence is submitted. If you have
been absent and fail to submit an excuse to the instructor, your absence will
be considered unexcused. Even if your absence is excused, you remain
responsible for the work associated with the class you missed. There will be a number of unannounced pop
quizzes. |
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Academic
Honesty
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Cheating in any form
is not tolerated, nor is assisting another person to cheat. The submission of
any work by a student is taken as a guarantee that the thoughts and
expressions in it are the student's own except when properly credited to
another. Violations of this principle include giving or receiving aid in
an exam or where otherwise prohibited, fraud, plagiarism, the falsification
or forgery of any record, and any other deceptive act in connection with
academic work. Plagiarism is the representation of another's words, ideas,
programs, formulae, options, or other products of work as one's own, either
overtly or by failing to attribute them to their true source. Always protect your own work from others, since it is often not
possible to determine who was the originator and who
was the copier. Such offense will result in a failing grade ‘F’ and a
letter of reprimand in your permanent student file. |
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Tentative
Course
Schedule
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