CENG3420 Computer Organization and Design – Spring 2020

Lecture/Tutorial:	W10:30-12:15	Venue: LSK 302	Zoom: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/605394329?
	H14:30-16:15	Venue: ERB 404	Zoom: https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/270113913?
Course Instructor:	Prof. Bei Yu	byu@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
Course Tutors:	Lu Zhang	lzhang@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
	Wei Li	wli@cse.cuhk.edu.hk
Consultation Hours:	H16:30–18:30@SHB907

• Honesty in Academic Work

• Staff Student Expectations

• About Absence in mid-term or quiz

Announcements

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:

• Class Attendance (5%), Homeworks (15%), Midterm (15%), Three Labs (25%), Final Exam (40%).

• Class Attendance (5%), Homeworks (25%), Three Labs (30%), Final Exam (40%).

• Homeworks (30%), Three Labs (30%), Final Exam (40%).

• If the final exam cannot be resumed to be face-face mode:

  • An open-book exam will be provided and each student is asked to finish it in one day

  • An additional course project will be provided. This project will be with a slightly higher difficulty than other projects in this course.

• 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, 5th Edition (amazon.com) (amazon.cn)

References:

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

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

• Lab 1 reference: [1] Appendix B, SPIM simulator

• Lab 2 reference: LC-3b-ISA, LC-3b-assembly

• Lab 3 reference: LC-3b-datapath

• How to access Linux server from Windows (Updated on May 10)

Lecture Notes and tutorials

Week	Date	Topic	Remark
1	Jan. 08	L01 Introduction (slides)
	Jan. 09	n/a
2	Jan. 15	n/a	Instructor in travel
	Jan. 16	n/a	Instructor in travel
3	Jan. 22	L02 ISA (slides, MIPS-cheatsheet)	[1] Sec.2.1–2.10
	Jan. 23	continue on ISA
4	Jan. 29	n/a	Lunar New Year Holiday
	Jan. 30	n/a	Lunar New Year Holiday
5	Feb. 05	n/a
	Feb. 06	n/a
6	Feb. 12	n/a
	Feb. 13	n/a
7	Feb. 19	L03 ALU (slides)	[1] Sec.3.1–3.5
	Feb. 20	continue on ALU
8	Feb. 26	L04 Performance (slides)	[1] Sec.1.4
	Feb. 27	L05 Datapath (slides)	[1] Sec.4.1–4.4
9	Mar. 04	L06 Pipeline (slides)	[1] Sec.4.5–4.9
	Mar. 05	Lab 1-1 (slides)
10	Mar. 11	Lab 1-2 (slides)
	Mar. 12	Lab 1-3 (slides)
11	Mar. 18	continue on pipeline
	Mar. 19	L07 Memory (slides)	[1] Sec.5.1–5.3, 5.7
12	Mar. 25	L08 Cache (slides, cache-flowchat)	[1] Sec.5.4–5.5
	Mar. 26	continue on cache
13	Apr. 01	n/a	Reading Week
	Apr. 02	n/a	Reading Week
14	Apr. 08	L09 Virtual Memory (slides)
	Apr. 09	L10 Instruction-Level Parallelism (slides)
15	Apr. 15	L11 Multi-Threading & Multi-Core (slides)	[1] Sec.7.1–7.6
	Apr. 16	L12 I/O Systems (slides)	[1] Sec.6.1–6.6
16	Apr. 20	Lab 2-1 (slides)	8:00–9:30pm (zoom link)
	Apr. 21	Lab 2-2 (slides) (Q&A)	8:00–9:30pm (zoom link)
	Apr. 22	Lab 3-1 (slides)	8:00–9:30pm (zoom link)
	Apr. 23	Lab 3-2 (slides)	8:00–9:30pm (zoom link)
17	Apr. 29	Lab 3-3 (slides) (Q&A)	8:00–9:30pm (zoom link)
18	May 06	Lecture & Homework Review	8:00–9:30pm (zoom link)

Homework / Quiz Sets

• HW1 (due on Mar. 08), HW1 Solution (Updated on May 09)

• HW2 (due on Apr. 07), HW2 Solution

• HW3 (due on Apr. 24), HW3 Solution (Updated on May 09)

• HW4 Solution (no need to submit)

Important Dates

• May 15, 2020 Final Exam, 9:30–12:00: open-book; question paper can be downloaded via Blackboard.