CMPE 382 Computer Organization and Architecture

General Course Info

Office hours

Marking

Problem sets are due at the beginning of lectures.  Mutually beneficial collaboration is encouraged on problem sets only, provided that the names of all collaborators are cited on the problem set, immediately below the student's name.  Marking will be based on effort.  Please do not put student id numbers on problem sets.

Quizzes will be held at the beginning of selected lectures where problem sets are due.  The only aids are the student's own problem set and a calculator.

Architecture assignments must be completed by CMPE 382 students in groups of one or two without assistance (ECE 510 students should work alone).  Submissions are due by 3:40 pm in the CMPE382 assignment box in the ECERF-ETLC atrium.  Late submissions will be penalized 20% of the assigned mark per school day.  Architecture assignments should be brief but sufficiently clear and readable that you would be happy to submit them to a busy engineering manager.  If it only takes a sentence to describe something, then it should be described in a sentence.  Architecture assignments should include:

• Title page
• for each part include:
• Assumptions made
• Legible code, graphs, tables, etc. as required (each page has to explain its self to the TA)
• A brief written summary of the results and the work you did to arrive at them
• Remember that bonus questions are mainly for entertainment.  Don't attempt them if you're pressed for time.
• Any feedback on how the assignment went that could be helpful to the TA or professor

Past handouts, etc. can be picked up from a box on the self opposite ECERF room w2-065.  Walk through ECE reception, jog left and the shelves will be on your right.

Submissions will not normally be re-graded more than two weeks after the first day these have been returned in class. 

The following calculators are permitted for examinations in this course: faculty approved programmable calculators, faculty approved non-programmable calculators, instructor approved calculators,  slide rules, and instructor approved abacuses (if used quietly).  Programmable calculators will probably offer little or no advantage over non-programmable calculators.  Students must not distract other students during exams, so please turn off the calculator beep.

The midterm and final examination aid sheets must be in the student’s own handwriting (both sides, no photocopies or printouts), may be no larger than 21.59 by 27.94 cm paper, and may contain any information.

Deferred examinations may contain multiple components (including an oral component) as designed by instructor.

Credit may only be received for one of CMPE382, CMPUT429, ECE510, CMPUT530, EE602 Computer Architecture, ECE710 Computer Architecture.

Grade Determination Method

Code of Student Behaviour

Library Resources

Textbook

Lecture Notes and Outline

Many lecture slides are courtesy of or based on the work of Drs. Asanovic, Patterson, Culler and Amaral

Tentative Outline:
(ask more questions and we'll cover fewer sections/chapters)

Topic	Chapter slides PDFs	Additional slides	Reading for interest
Fundamentals	1
Instruction Sets	B
Processor Pipelining	A
Instruction Level Parallelism	2,3,G
Memory Hierarchy	C, 5
Multiprocessors & Thread Level Parallelism	4,H
Storage Systems  - not on exam	6

Problem Sets & Architecture Assignments

Manufacturer's Information

Local copies of documents