NJIT

COURSE SYLLABUS

ECE 690: COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE

Instructor: Professor Sotirios G. Ziavras, (973) 596-5651,

ziavras@mailhost.njit.edu (I’ll reply to questions related to ECE 690 only if you send email to this account),

http://web.njit.edu/~ziavras

Office Hours: M 2:30-4:00PM

Textbook: Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, by John L. Hennessy and

D.A. Patterson, Morgan Kaufmann, 4^th edition, 2007 (H&P)

Additional material: History of Computation, by Sotirios G. Ziavras (SGZ)

Computer Systems, by Sotirios G. Ziavras (SGZ)

Recommended additional text: Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism,

Scalability, Programmability, by Kai Hwang, McGraw Hill, 1993

COURSE OUTLINE

Week 1: History of Computation (SGZ)

Chapter 1, Modules 1-4 (H&P)

Week 2: Chapter 1, Modules 5-6 (H&P)

Computer Systems (SGZ)

Chapter 2, Modules 1-2 (H&P)

Week 3: Chapter 2, Modules 3-5 (H&P)

Week 4: Chapter 2, Module 6 (H&P)

Appendix A, Modules 1-3 (H&P) Note: the module numbers here

Submit the project proposal correspond to PowerPoint

Week 5: Appendix A, Modules 4-7 (H&P) lectures and CD modules for

Week 6: Appendix A, Module 8 (H&P) the distance-learning version

Chapter 3, Modules 1-2 (H&P) of this class

Week 7: Midterm Examination

Week 8: Chapter 3, Modules 3-4 (H&P)

Week 9: Chapter 3, Modules 5-7 (H&P)

Week 10: Chapter 3, Modules 8-9 (H&P)

Week 11: Chapter 4, Modules 1-4 (H&P)

Week 12: Chapter 5, Modules 1-3 (H&P)

Week 13: Chapter 5, Modules 4-6 (H&P)

Week 14: Chapter 5, Modules 7-8, 10 (H&P)

Submit the final project report

Week 15: Final Examination

Grading Policy: Midterm exam: 35%

Project: 30%,

Final exam: 35%

The NJIT Honor Code will be upheld. Any violations will be brought to the immediate attention of the Dean of Students.