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
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.