Course Outline

On successful completion of this course students should be able to:

• Describe design principles for different instruction sets
• Discuss different register organizations
• Identify processor and register organizations
• Describe instrcution pipelining and identify pipeline hazards
• Discuss RISC/CISC processors
• Explain superscalar execeution and  superpipeline approaches
• Identify symmetric multiprocessors and cache coherency protocols
• Discuss Cluster and NUMA organizations
• Describe multiple processor organizations
• Discuss multicore organizations

• The course has three hours of lectures in a week mainly held in the form of a seminar.
• There is no lab works or tutorials.

• There is one written midterm exam and one written final exam.
• The exams are conducted as a written exam that may contain multiple choice, fill in the blanks, short answer and writing essay questions.
• There is an individual term project.
• You should find a recent conference/journal paper (published in the last 5 years) related to Computer Architecture and Hardware.
• The selected paper should be sent as an e-mail to alper.doganalp@emu.edu.tr and wait for the confirmation.
• Once the topic is confirmed, you can start studying the topic and prepare a written report.
• The printed report should be submitted before the announced deadline.
  
• Late submissions are not accepted.
• Project grade is out of 25%.
• The report should be between 3500-4000 words with the format provided in the report template on the web site.
• Turnitin plagiarism test must be obtained before submission.
• The plagiarism test result should be less than 20%.
• No reports are accepted for consideration with higher plagiarism test result.
• An account will be created for you to make the plagiarism test through Turnitin.
• The work done for the project should be presented.
• The duration of the presentation is about 15 minutes for each student.
• Presentation grade is out of 10%.
• Class attendance is compulsory.
• Lecture notes are available on the course web site.

• Course related materials will be posted on the course web site.

Text Book:

William Stallings, Computer Organization and Architecture-Designing for Performance, Ninth Edition, Pearson Higher Education, 2013. ISBN 13: 978-0-13-293633-0

• Each student can have only one make-up exam. One who misses an exam should provide a medical report within 3 days after the missed exam.
• The make-up exam will be organized at the end of the term after the finals and will cover all the topics.
• No make-up will be given for any quiz, project, presentation or assignment.
• Once the grades are announced, the students have only one week to do objection about their grades.
• It is the students' responsibility to follow the announcement in the course web site.

• Students are expected to have a computer hardware background at minimum undergraduate level for registering the course.
• Students who lack an official proof (such as undergraduate transcript) of the required academic background must acquire a written permission from the course instructor for registering the course.