Tentative Syllabus
Spring Semester, 2008
Classroom: 400-CS (Classroom South)
Time: MW 5:30 pm - 7:10 pm
Instructor: Dr. Michael Weeks
Computer Science Department
Office: 34 Peachtree Street, room 1444
Office Hours: TBA
web-page: http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~cscmcw
Phone: (404) 413-5722
Teaching Assistant : Evelyn Brannock
TA's office: 34 Peachtree Street, 14th floor, Room 1427
TA's office hours: Fridays Noon to 3
TA's e-mail: ebrannock1
FINAL EXAM
The Final Exam will be given in the above classroom on (See attached
calendar for the date and time)
TEXTS
M. Morris Mano. Computer System Architecture.
3rd Ed. Prentice Hall 1993. (Required.)
PREREQUISITES
CSc 3210 Computer Organization and Programming (assembly language)
with grade of C or higher. Minimum institutional GPA of 2.3 required.
In addition, students are expected to know
discrete structures applicable to computer science, number bases,
logic, sets, Boolean algebra, graph theory.
CONTENT
Logic design, combinatorial and sequential circuits, micro-operations,
computer organization and design, programming a basic computer,
controllers and micro-programmed control, central processing unit,
bit slicing, input-output devices, memory. Additionally, as time
permits, pipelining, reduced instruction sets (RISC), and VLIW
(Very Long Instruction Word).
GRADING
- 4210 Students
- 4 Quizzes will constitute one-third of the course grade.
- 4 Assignments will constitute one-third of the course grade.
- The final exam will constitute one-third of the course grade.
- 6210 Students
- 4 Quizzes will constitute 35% of the course grade.
- 4 Assignments will constitute 30% of the course grade.
- The research paper and presentation will constitute 10% of the course grade.
- The final exam will constitute 25% of the course grade.
- Note that the 6210 tests may be different from the 4210 tests, containing additional material, or more involved questions.