Attention:

 

The deadline for the e-submission of your project white papers is still the same - Friday, March 6.

 

ESE 545 Computer Architecture Spring 2009

 

Course Description: This course focuses on the techniques of quantitative analysis and evaluation of modern computer systems. The emphasis is on instruction set design, pipelining, instruction and thread level parallelism, and memory hierarchies. Students will undertake a design project on the multimedia processor design related to the course contents.

 

As a rule, all projects are to be done with a use of hardware description languages, such as VHDL or Verilog, as well as modern CAD systems, such as Cadence, Mentor Graphics, etc.

 

Neither VHDL/Verilog languages nor the use of CAD systems will be taught in the class. Students are strongly encouraged to begin learning these tools individually starting from the first week of the class. Contact Prad Mohanty, the administrator of the Graduate Lab (room 183), if you need computer accounts in the Lab.

 

Please follow the rules established for the Graduate Lab if you do not want your accounts as well as your access to the Lab to be cancelled.  

 

Lectures:              152 Light Engineering Monday 6:50 - 9:50 PM

 

Instructor:           Mikhail Dorojevets

Office:                  243 Light Engineering, 632-8611, MiDor@ece.sunysb.edu

Office hours:       M 9:50-11:50 AM

 

Textbook (absolutely required for all students! No copies/previous editions will be allowed during the midterm.): J. Hennessy and D. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Fourth edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2007.

 

                  

Other Highly Recommended Books (for the project):

 

1. Peter J. Ashenden. The Designer’s Guide to VHDL, 3rd edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2008. ISBN: 9780120887859.

2. Samir Palnitkar. Verilog HDL: A Guide to Digital Design and Synthesis, Prentice Hall, 2003, ISBN: 0130449113.

 

 

 

Exam: There will be one (“late mid-term”) exam in April.

Project presentation deadline: The first week of May.

 

Grading:

Exam:                                              50%

Project (one or two person teams):   50%

 

 

If you have a physical, psychological, medical or learning disability that may impact on your ability to carry out assigned course work, I would urge that you contact the staff in the Disabled Student Services office (DSS), room 133 Humanities, 632-6748/TDD. DSS will review your concerns and determine, with you, what accommodations are necessary and appropriate. All information and documentation of disability is confidential.