CENG3420 Computer Organization & Design – Spring 2023

Lecture:	W11:30–12:15	Venue: ERB LT
	H16:30–18:15	Venue: ERB LT
Tutorial 01:	W16:30–17:15	Venue: LHC 103
Tutorial 02:	W16:30–17:15	Venue: LSB LT5
Tutorial 03:	W17:30–18:15	Venue: ERB 407
Course Instructor:	Prof. Bei Yu	byu@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
Course Tutors:	Chen Bai	cbai@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
	Hongduo Liu	hdliu21@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
	Ziyi Wang	ziyiwang21@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
	Yuxuan Zhao	yxzhao21@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
	Shixin Chen	sxchen22@cse.cuhk.edu.hk

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Description:

This course provides an introduction to computer organization. The objective is to introduce the major components of a computer system, how they function together in executing a program, and the organizational paradigms that determine the capabilities, performance and power of computer systems.

Course Requirements:

• Attendance (5%), Homeworks (15%), Midterm (15%), Three Labs (30%), Final Exam (35%).

• A student must gain at least 50% of the full marks in order to pass the course.

• A student must attend at least 80% of lectures in order to gain all class attendance credits.

Textbook:

• [1] Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, RISC-V Edition (amazon.com) (JD.com}

References:

• [2] Introduction to Computing Systems: From bits & gates to C & beyond, 2nd Edition (amazon.com) (JD.com)

• [3] Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 5th Edition (amazon.com) (JD.com)

• RV32 Reference 1 and RV32 Reference 2

• How to access Linux server from Windows

• Lab 1 report template

Lectures

Date	Topic		Date	Topic
Jan. 11	L01 Introduction (slides)		Jan. 12	L02 Basis (slides)
Jan. 18	L03 ISA intro (slides)		Jan. 19	L04 arithmetic (slides)
Jan. 25	Lunar New Year		Jan. 26	Lunar New Year
Feb. 01	L05 ALU-1		Feb. 02	L06 control
Feb. 08	continue on L06		Feb. 09	L07 ALU-2
Feb. 15	L08 floating num		Feb. 16	L09 Datapath
Feb. 22	L10 Performance		Feb. 23	L11 pipeline-1
Mar. 01	L12 pipeline-2		Mar. 02	L13 Memory-1
Mar. 08	Reading Week		Mar. 09	Reading Week
Mar. 15	L14 Memory-2		Mar. 16	Midterm
Mar. 22	L15 Cache-1		Mar. 23	L16 Cache-2
Mar. 29	L17 Cache-3		Mar. 30	L18 Virtual Memory
Apr. 05	Ching Ming Festival		Apr. 06	L19 ILP
Apr. 12	continue on ILP		Apr. 13	L20 Multi-Core
Apr. 19	L21 I/O Systems		Apr. 20	HW4 & overall review

Tutorials

Week	Date	Topic	Remark
1	Jan. 11–12	n/a
2	Jan. 18–19	Lab 1-1
3	Jan. 25–26	Lab 1-2
4	Feb. 01–02	Lunar New Year
5	Feb. 08–09	Lab 1-3
6	Feb. 15–16	HW1 review
7	Feb. 22–23	Lab 2-1
8	Mar. 01–02	Lab 2-2
9	Mar. 08–09	Reading Week
10	Mar. 15–16	Lab 3-1
11	Mar. 22–23	HW2 review
12	Mar. 29–30	Lab 3-2
13	Apr. 05–06	HW3 review
14	Apr. 12–13	Lab 3-3
15	Apr. 19–20

Homework / Quiz Sets

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