Department of Information and Software Engineering


Syllabus




J Masiyowski, Adjunct Professor

INFS 515, Computer Organization

Home Page, Fall 2006

Last update: 7 December 2006 @ 6:45p

Schedule

Reading Assignments

Homework Assignments
Textbook
Non-Textbook

Course Textbook Links:

Publisher Web Site
Textbook Web Site


Errata Sheet:

First Printing (Sept 06)
Second Printing (Sept 06)
Errata Corrections

Student Resources

Lecture Notes

Useful Links

General Quiz -Study Guide

Mid-Term Exam Study Guide

Final Exam Study Guide

Announcements




Instructor

Home page of Adjunct Prof. J. Masiyowski with office room number, office hours, and contact information.


Selected Homework Solutions:

Exercises: Textbook 6.10 (pdf)

Non-Textbook Homework Assignments
Assignment #1 – Short professional biograph (one page typed maximum).
Assignment #2 – Processor Technology Investigation; Part 1 [General Computer (CPU) Architecture and Organization]
Assignment #3 – Processor Technology Investigation; Part 2 [Data Representations]
Assignment #4 – Processor Technology Investigation; Part 3 [ALU Functions]
Assignment #5 – Processor Technology Investigation; Part 4 [Instruction Set Architecture]
Assignment #6 – Processor Technology Investigation; Part 5 [Cache Architectures]


Errata Sheet (Sept 06) Corrections:
Not listed in the errata sheets. Correction to Chapter 10 Geometric Mean calculations. page 546-548.
The computations to determine normalization is incorrect in the textbook.
Correct Example: To normalize System A and System B to System C, compute the ratios as A/C and B/C (NOT C/A and C/B). Thus, the answers in the book for problems 3, 4 are not correct. Also, Tables 11.4 and 11.5 (page 547) are also incorrect as well as the computations for the Geometric Means for A and C at the bottom of page 546.
Table 11.5 on page 547 should read “... when System C is Used for as...”

Lecture Notes
Overview (administrative) [pdf] Session 1 (week 1)
Architecture and Organization Overview (administrative) [pdf] Session 1 (week 1)


Announcements

Date

Description

26 Aug

Initial course web site created. DRAFT versions of syllabus, schedule, lecture notes, reading & homework assignment posted.
The "Simple Logic Gates" web site appears to be down (not available).

29 Aug

Updated schedules to include Columbus Day Recess.

10 Sept

Updated Useful Link page with references for Moore's Law.

17 Sept

Revised syllabus with cell phone policy (taken from Course Overview Slides) and TA office hours.
Revised homework assignments (removed Ex 2.18, clarified Ex 2.45); posted due dates for remaining non-textbook assignments.
NOTE: Quiz #1 will not cover Booth's Algorithm.
Posted non-textbook assignment #3.

1 Oct

Mid-Term Exam Student Study Guide posted.
Updated Homework assignment schedule for non-textbook assignment #3 & #4
Non-Textbook Homework assignment #3 moved to 2 October and #4 moved to 23 October.
Posted Non-Textbook Assignment #4

11 Oct

Posted revised schedules and assignments due to mid-term exam re-schedule.

17 Oct

Posted revised Mid-Term Exam Study Guide
Note: Course textbook sections 2.72, 2.7.3, & 3.6.6 will not be covered on the mid-term.
Updated useful links to include references to Finite State Machines (FSM).
Reorganized useful links page

18 Oct

Reformatted this page

21 Oct

Correct link to non-textbook assignments
Posted non-textbook assignment #5

2 Nov

Updated useful links page

7 Nov

Posted Non-Textbook Homework Assignment #6
Quiz #4 covers Chapter 5 in course textbook
Updated useful links page

8 Nov

Corrected Student Resource link for the course textbook.
Updated errata sheet links for the course textbook (Sept 06 versus May 06). Update your textbooks accordingly.

14 Nov

Posted solution to textbook exercise 6.10
Quiz #5 will cover Chapters 6 & 7.
Exercise 6.15 will be discussed in class on 20 Nov.

28 Nov

Posted final exam student study guide (include guidelines for the student exam reference sheet)
Note: There will NOT be a Quiz on 4 Dec.

7 Dec

The classroom R B111 will NOT be available on 11 Dec from 7:15 to 10pm.
Note the errata correction for Chapter 11, section 11.3.1, geometric mean calculations.