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This document provides an overview of a course on computer organization and architecture. It outlines details such as the instructor, meeting times, prerequisites, and grading structure. Students will learn about computer hardware design using a textbook on the subject, and will complete hands-on projects using a MIPS assembly simulator and Verilog hardware description language. The overall goal is for students to understand the principles and reasoning behind modern computer design.

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COACourse Overview Slides

This document provides an overview of a course on computer organization and architecture. It outlines details such as the instructor, meeting times, prerequisites, and grading structure. Students will learn about computer hardware design using a textbook on the subject, and will complete hands-on projects using a MIPS assembly simulator and Verilog hardware description language. The overall goal is for students to understand the principles and reasoning behind modern computer design.

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Computer Organization and

Architecture (AT70.01)
Comp. Sc. and Inf. Mgmt.
Asian Institute of Technology
Course Overview
Page 1
 Instructor: Dr. Sumanta Guha
 Office: 104 CSIM Building
 Email: [email protected]
 Telephone: 66-2-524-5714 (ext. 5714 at AIT, Bkk)

 TA: Mr. Nguyen Duc Cong Song


 Email: [email protected]

 Credits: 3(3-0)

 Prerequisite: None

 Course Website: http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/~guha/COA/


 All material from the instructor – including these slides – are on-line!
Course Overview
Page 2
 Class times:
 Tuesday & Thursday 16:00-17:15

 Discussion Group: Yahoo group – ait_csim_coa


( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ait_csim_coa/ )
 Submit your email address to the TA and you will be invited to join the
group.
 Important: All course-related questions outside of class or office should
not be sent by individual email to the TA or instructor – they should be
posted to the discussion group!! Responses may be made by students as
well. The TA and instructor will constantly monitor the group and
participate in discussions and try to answer questions. This way
everybody benefits.
Announcements by the TA and instructor will be posted to the group.
Please check the group frequently and please participate in discussions !!
Course Overview
Page 3
 Textbook (required): D.A. Patterson and J.L. Hennessy (1998) –
Computer Organization and Design : The Hardware/Software
Interface (2nd edition), Morgan Kaufmann
 Please buy an original copy of the COD text (at the AIT bookstore if
you are in Bangkok) as there are several figures where colors are
used to highlight active components and it is difficult to follow
without color!

 Brief Course Outline (note the course description at the CSIM


Courses Offered website is outdated):
 Chapters 1-7 of the COD text
 Advanced topics (to be announced)
 SPIM – MIPS assembly language simulator
 Verilog – hardware description language
Course Overview
Page 4
 Objectives: We plan to understand the principles underlying modern
computer architecture and how and why components are designed the
way they are.
 The keyword is understand !! We must not be satisfied by just learning a
bunch of information about how computers are made – our goal is to learn
why manufacturers chose particular designs and what makes them good.
 Note: computer architecture is an (interesting and beautiful) science. Just
like physics or math. Therefore, once we understand the reasoning behind
design decisions it will be easy to follow the designs themselves. Then
there will not be a lot to memorize !!
 This will be a practical course !! We shall use the SPIM simulator to learn
MIPS assembly. We shall design fully-functional components and
computers using the Verilog design environment. Remember:
 Assembly is the language of the machine. It is a direct function of the
hardware. Definition of assembly determines design of the hardware and vice
versa. Therefore, it is critical to understand assembly well.
 Verilog is widely used in industry to design and verify chips before physical
manufacture. Thus, we shall use computers to design totally realistic parts like
CPUs and memory, run and test them, and join them together into systems!!
Course Overview
Page 5
 Reference Books:
 M.G. Arnold (1999) – Verilog Digital Computer Design, Prentice Hall
 J.D. Carpinelli (2000) – Computer Systems Organization & Architecture,
Addison Wesley
 J. L. Hennessy and D.A. Patterson (2003) – Computer Architecture : A
Quantitative Approach (3rd Edition), Morgan Kaufmann
 I. Koren (2002) – Computer Arithmetic Algorithms, Prentice Hall
 M.M. Mano (2002) – Computer System Architecture (3rd Edition), Prentice
Hall
 M.M. Mano (2002) – Digital Design (3rd Edition), Prentice Hall
 S. Palnitkar (2003) – Verilog HDL (2nd Edition), Prentice Hall
 A.S. Tanenbaum (1998) – Structured Computer Organization (4th Edition),
Prentice Hall
 R. Williams (2001) – Computer Systems Architecture: A Networking
Approach, Addison Wesley
Course Overview
Page 6
 Grading System:
 Mid-term – 20%
 Final – 40%
 Projects – 40%
 Projects will be on using the MIPS simulator SPIM (1 project) and the
hardware design language Verilog (2 projects).
 Projects will be done by groups of students, each group having 1-2
students.
 More details will be provided as we go along. Monitor the discussion
group for announcements!

 Enjoy the Course!


 Be enthusiastic about the material because it is interesting and
important. Our job is to help you learn and enjoy the experience.
We will do our best but we also need your help. So let’s all have fun
together with computer architecture…!!!

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