Instructor: Patrick
Troy
Office: 919 SEO
Phone: (312)
996-8521
Email: troy@cs.uic.edu
Class Times: 2:00
- 2:50 MWF
Location: 329
BH
Text: Computer
Architecture, A Quantitative Approach, 2nd Ed.
by
Hennessy and Patterson, Morgan Kaufmann Pub.
Topics: Introduction
to Computer Architecture Ch. 1
Instruction
Set Design Ch. 2
Pipelining Ch. 3,4
Memory-Hierarchy
Design Ch. 5
Storage
Systems Ch. 6
As
time permits:
Interconnection
Networks Ch. 7
Multiprocessors Ch. 9
Course Work: Homeworks 35%
Midterm (9/26/2001) 20%
Midterm (10/31/2001) 20%
Final (12/4/2001) 25%
Grading: 100%
- 90.0% Grade
A
89.9%
- 80.0% Grade B
79.9%
- 70.0% Grade C
69.9%
- 60.0% Grade D
59.9%
- 0% Grade
E
All
programming assignments are due at 11:59 pm on the date stated on the
assignment. All other assignments are
due at the beginning of class on the
day they are due. No late assignments will be accepted. There will be approximately 10 homework assignments during the
course of the semester. The exams will
be closed-book, closed-note exams.
Attendance
at class is up to the discretion of each student; however, each student is
responsible for all information (notes, hand-outs, announcements, etc.) covered
during class. You should ask fellow
classmates for missed information, not the instructor. No "extra" work is allowed to make
up for missed exams, missed labs or any poor performance.
If
you have any questions regarding how any assignment or test is graded and you
think that you deserve more points than you received, you must see the instructor or TA about this within one week of
the time the assignment is first returned to the class. No claims, justifiable or not, will be
considered after this dead line.
Any
student caught cheating will receive an E in the course, and face possible
dismissal from the University. Students
are advised that it is a violation to copy, or allow another to copy, all or
part of an exam or program. We will be
using MOSS to electronically monitor all program submissions.