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COE 2233880 - Computer Organization
Spring 2021

Course Info:

The objective of this course is to teach the organization and architecture of computer systems hardware, basics of the von Neumann machine,  instruction set arhitectures, addresssing modes, assembly programming, processor and control design, CISC and RISC architectures, computer arithmetic, memory systems, interconection structures, I/O organization, secondary storage devices, performance issues,  parallel processing and multicore computers, and graphic processing units. The laboratories for this course will focus on logical design of computer components, assembly programming and the design of a simple microprocessor and its components using a hardware description language.

Prerequisite Courses

COE 2119010 - Digital Circuits Design

Required Text(s)

 

Computer Organization And Architecture, Wiilam Stallings, 11th Edition, 2019 (html). 

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Computer Organization and Design ARM Edition: The Hardware Software Interface, David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy  , Morgan Kaufmann, 2016 (html). 

 

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Recomended Text(s)

- Digital Design and Computer Architecture: ARM Edition, Sarah Harris, David Harris, perarson, 2015.
- Structured Computer Organization, 6th edition, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, and Todd, Pearson 2013.
- Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, 3/E, Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron, 2016 (html).

Meeting Times:

- Wednesday 10:00 - 13:00,  Location: C_314

Labs:

- Lab : Thursday 13:30-15:30, TA: Khaled Algammal

Grading:

Evaluation Tool (*) Weight in %
Assignments and Labs 20
In-term Exams
- 2 Quizes
- 1 Midterm		 40
Final 40
(*) After each type of assesment, some of the students may be called for an oral examination. The student's performance in the oral exam will affect the student's grades. If a student does not come for an oral exam or follow the specified exam rules, (s)he will get automatically score 0 (zero) points for that part of the assesment.


Tentative  Course Outline:

WEEK TOPIC(S)
1 Basic Concepts and Computer Evolution
2 Chapter 2- Performance Issues
3 Chapter 3 - A Top-Level View of Computer Function and Interconnection
4 Chapter 9 -  Number Systems
Chapter 10 - Computer Arithmetic
Chapter 11 - Digital Logic
5 - Electronic Deign Automation (EDA) by L. Mateu (PDF)
- Hardware description language (HDL (html)
6 Chapter 4 [HH] - Hardware Description Languages
- Hardware Description Languages - Book Chapter by Harris (PDF)
7 Chapter 12 - Instruction Sets: Characteristics and Functions
8 Chapter 13 - Instruction Sets:  Addressing Modes and Formats
9 Exam Week
10 Chapter 14 - Processor Structure and Function ARM Assembly Language
- ARM 32 Assembly Language  [HH] (PDF)
   - LEGv8 Assemly Language [PH] (PDF)
   - ARM 64 Assembly Language (PDF)  (Source: CS217 (html))
- Intel 64 Assembly Language
   - Intel 32 Assembly Language (html) (pdf)
   - Intel 64 Assembly Language (PDF)   (Source: CS217 (html))
11 Chapter 20 - Control Unit Operation
12 Chapter 4 - Cache Memory
13 Chapter 5 - Internal Memory
14 Chapter 6 - External Memory

Course Syllabus in PDF ()