CDA 5155 Computer
Architecture Principles, Summer 2008
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Instructor |
Dr. Jih-Kwon Peir |
Office CSE 354, 392-1044 |
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Zhuo Huang |
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Zhuang@cise.ufl.edu |
Office CSE 309 |
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Class Schedule: |
Period 5,6 on Monday, Period 6 on Wednesday |
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Class Room: |
CSE 107 |
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Instructor's Office Hour: |
By appointment |
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Lecture and Office Hours:
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Period 1 8:00-9:15 |
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Period 2 9:30-10:45 |
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Period 3 11:00-12:15 |
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Period 4 12:30-1:45 |
Huang |
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Period 5 2:00-3:15 |
Video Lecture
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Huang |
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Period 6 3:30-4:45 |
Video Lecture |
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Video Lecture |
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Period 7 5:00-6:15 |
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About the Course:
CDA 5155—Computer Architecture Principles (3
Credits)
Prereq: CDA 3101, COP 3530, and COP4600.
This course teaches students fundamental knowledge in Computer Architecture and Microarchitecture. The course covers the basic organizations of computer systems including instruction-set architecture, execution pipeline, memory hierarchy, and I/O subsystem. It also addresses advanced processor microarchitecture issues such as dynamic instruction scheduling, branch prediction, lock-up free caches, instruction-level parallelism, multiple instruction fetch/issuing, speculative execution, etc. to improve computer processor performance. Shared-memory multiprocessor systems with coherent caches to reduce memory access latency are important subjects in this course. The emerging Chip Multiprocessor and thread-level parallelism are also covered.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
1.
CDA 5155 is taught by Video Lectures this summer. The video was
taped during Spring 2008 when the same course was
offered. Since each period in Spring semester is 50 minutes
long, you will experience a difference when using these lectures in the summer
where each period is 75 minutes long. A decision has been made to release all
video lectures in two steps. The first set of videos up to the midterm exam
will be released at the beginning of the semester. The rest will be released
after the midterm exam. Note, a new short lecture is
made to overview the course in this summer and to explain the difference of the
video lecture.
2.
Please go to the CDA5155
home page for
Spring
2008. All information posted there will generally
be applicable for this summer term. The exceptions are:
a.
The dates for home works, exams, projects, etc. will be
different. Please see announcement in this new home page for the correct dates.
b.
The content of home works and exams will be different. Also,
we plan to modify the project somewhat. Please also look for the assignment and
announcement from this page.
3.
The midterm is scheduled to take place on June 30th
period 5,6 and the final exam will be the last day of
class on Aug. 6th. An exam review will be given on the last lecture
before the exam. The video review is generally applicable for the summer unless
a special announcement.
4.
For distance-learning students through EDGE must follow the same
deadline set for on-campus students. Due to the tight schedule in the summer,
also due to all students will be seeing lectures through video equally, there will be no different deadline for EDGE and
on-campus students.
5.
Due to the compressed summer term, students are advised to
work on all the assignments, especially the project as early as possible.