CS552: Introduction to Computer Architecture - Spring 2017

Spring 2017
Instructor: Karu Sankaralingam; URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~karu
Email: karu@cs.wisc.edu Include 552 in subject line
Meeting time: CHEM B371 180 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM, TR
Office hours: T,Th 2:15pm to 3:00pm
TAs: Taylor Johnston
Course URL: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~karu/courses/cs552/spring2017/wiki

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Computer architecture is the science and art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create a computer that meets functional, performance and cost goals. In this course, students will learn how to completely design a correct single processor computer, including processor datapath, processor control, memory systems, and I/O. We will learn that no magic is required to make a computer work.

CS/ECE 552 serves students two ways. First, for those who will continue in computer architecture, it lays foundation of detailed implementation experience necessary to make meaningful the quantitative tradeoffs found in CS/ECE 752 and 757. Second, for those students not continuing in computer architecture, it unifies concepts introduced in CS/ECE 352 and 354 and solidifies an intuition about why hardware is as it is.

I will teach the ONLY section of 552 13:00-14:15 Tuesday and Thursdays in CHEM B371

The required text is:

David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware and Software Interface Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Fifth Edition. ISBN: 9780124077263. NOTE: Some of the assigned readings will be from the CD included with the book

The course will be similar to 552 from Spring 2016 and David Wood's 552 from Spring 2010.

Prerequisites

ECE/CS 352 and CS/ECE 354;
co-req: CS 367
Email me for questions about prereq.

Learn@UW links for this course.

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