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INSTITUTION National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Islamabad

Computer Science (BS) – Spring 2019

PROGRAM (S) TO BE
EVALUATED

Course Description
(Fill out the following table for each course in your computer science curriculum. A filled out form should
not be more than 2-3 pages.)

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Course Code EE204

Course Title Computer Architecture
Credit Hours 3
Prerequisites by Computer Organization and Assembly Language (EE109)
Course(s) and Topics
Assessment Instruments 100% theory
with Weights (homework,
quizzes, midterms, final, Breakdown of Course Work (Total):
programming assignments,
lab work, etc.) Midterm 1 30%
Quizzes 5 10%
Homework 4 10%
Project 1 10%
Final 1 40%

Course Coordinator Dr. Mirza Omer Beg, Mr. Shams Farooq

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Current Catalog Main focused knowledge areas: Instruction Set Architecture/Design,
Description
Processor Implementation Techniques, Memory Hierarchy Design, Input-
Output. In Depth study of the design and implementation of a single cycle,
multi cycle and pipelined processor with emphasis on the implementation of
control unit and performance of the main functional units, i.e. ALU, Memory
and registers.
Textbook (or Laboratory Digital Design and Computer Architecture: ARM® Edition by
Manual for Laboratory
Courses) Sarah L. Harris and David Money Harris
Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, by
David A. Patterson & John L. Hennessy, 5th Edition.

Reference Material Computer Organization & Architecture by William Stalling

Course Goals After completion of the course, the student shall be able to:
1. Use various metrics to calculate the performance of a computer
system.
2. Identify the addressing modes of instructions.
3. Determine which hardware blocks and control lines are used for
specific instructions.
5. Analyze clock periods, performance, and instruction throughput of
single-cycle, multi-cycle, and pipelined implementations of a simple
instruction set.
6. Detect pipeline hazards and identify possible solutions to those
hazards.
7. Show how cache design parameters affect program performance.

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Topics Covered in the  ARM Instructions

Course, with Number of 3 Lectures
Lectures on Each Topic  Program Performance and Amdahl's Law
(assume 15-week instruction
3 Lectures
and one-hour lectures)
 ARM Instructions
3 Lectures
 Computer Arithmetic & Performance
 Single and Multicycle Processor Control 6 Lectures
6 Lectures
 Control Unit Implementation
3 Lectures
 Concept of Pipelining
 Pipelining Hazards 6 Lectures
 Caches their Performance 6 Lectures
 Multicores, Multiprocessors & Clusters 6 Lectures
3 Lectures

Laboratory Designing Cache Simulator

Projects/Experiments
Done in the Course
Programming None
Assignments Done in the
Course
Class Time Spent on (in Theory Problem Solution Social and Ethical
credit hours, Hrs/Min) Analysis Design Issues
1.5/90 0.4/20 1.0/60 0.1/10
Oral and Written Every student is required to submit at least __4__ written assignments of
Communications typically __8_ pages and to make __1___ oral presentations of typically
__10___ minute’s duration. This includes only the material that is graded for
grammar, spelling, style, and so forth, as well as for technical content,
completeness, and accuracy.

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A. Tentative course outline and lecture plan

Number of Chapter
Topics
Lectures
3 Introduction to Microcomputer 1
Instruction Set Architecture
6 ARM Instructions 2
ARM Instructions Operands
Addressing Modes
Instruction format
3 Computer Arithmetic 3
Constructing an ALU
3 Performance 4,5
Evaluating and Measuring Computer Performance
Amdahl's law
Performance Metrics

3 Processor Data path 6

3 Single Cycle Processor Control 7
3 Multi Cycle Processor 8
Multi Cycle Processor Data Path Design
State Machine Design
3 Control Unit Implementation 9
6 Concept of Pipelining 10
Pipeline throughput
machine cycles
pipeline hazards
Pipeline stalls
Structural data and control hazards
Pipelining of functional units
6 Cache 11,12
Cache introduction
Principle of Locality of reference
Cache organization
cache hit, cache miss, cache hit access time
Write-through, write-back, write-around schemes,
dirty bit, reading/writing cache,
cache organization, Fully Associative scheme
Direct Mapped scheme
Cache Performance and Multilevel Cache
3 Multicores, Multiprocessors and Clusters 13
3 Project Presentations

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