Computer architecture is the science and art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create a computer that meets functional, performance, and cost goals. This course introduces the basic principles and hardware structures of a modern general-purpose computer. We will learn, for example, how to design the control and datapath for a pipelined RISC processor and how to design fast memory and storage systems. The principles presented in the lectures are reinforced in the laboratory through designing and implementing a RISC processor in Register Transfer-Level (RTL) using Verilog HDL.

CSED 101 (Programming and Problem Solving)
CSED 211 (Introduction to Computer SW systems)
CSED 273 (Digital System Design)

(Subject to change)
Mid-term exam: 25%
Final exam: 25%
Labs: 35%
Homework: 8%
Quiz: 7%

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective by Randal E. Bryandt & David R. O'Hallaron (2nd Edition)

- Introduction
- Instruction set architecture
- Single-cycle and multi-cycle CPU
- Pipelined CPU and hazards
- Branch prediction, exception
- Advanced CPU
- Memory hierarchy, cache, cache coherence
- Virtual memory
- I/O
- Memory and storage devices
- Parallel architecture, GPU
- Interconnection network
- Domain-specific accelerator

- Labs will be done in group of two students.
- Depending on the situation around COVID-19, lectures and labs can be done online (subject to change).