Department of Computer Science & Engineering

CEG3420 Computer Design

Course Information

Text:

Patterson and Hennessy, "Computer Organization & Design The Hardware/Software Interface", Morgan Kaufmann, 2nd Edition 1998

Reference:

Hennessy and Patterson, , "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" (2^nd edition), Morgan Kaufmann 1996.

Assessment:

50% final exam

20% projects

25% midterm

5% tutorial assignments

Lecturer:

Philip Leong (phwl)

Tutors:

Mr. Hiu Yung Wong (hywong2)

Mr. Ocean Cheung (yhcheung)

WWW site:

http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~phwl/ceg3420/ceg3420.html

Assumed knowledge

C programming

assembly language programming (not necessarily MIPs which will be covered in the course)

digital logic (particularly finite state machine design)

Objectives

This is a course in Computer Design and at the end of the course, students should understand

how modern computer systems work
how to design a computer & how design decisions affect cost and performance.

how to measure performance.

Lecture notes

These are available on the CEG3420 WWW site. We will cover approximately 2 of these lectures every week.

Tutorials

These will be posted on the CEG3420 WWW site each week. Tutorial solutions must be handed to the tutor in the tutorial session of the week following the tutorial unless otherwise specified.