UNITED INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

COURSE SYLLABUS

1 School School of Science and Engineering (SOSE)

Department /
2 Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Centre
3 Programme EEE & ETE

4 Name of Course Computer Architecture

5 Course Code CSE 313

6 Trimester and Year Spring, 2019

7 Pre-requisites Microprocessor and Interfacing, EEE 423

8 Status Elective Course

9 Credit Hours 3

10 Section D
Sunday : 11:40 AM – 01:10 PM
11 Class Hours
Tuesday : 11:40 AM – 01:10 PM
12 Class Location Room # 0602

13 Course website https://elms.uiu.ac.bd/course/view.php?id=6765

Name (s) of
14 Academic staff / Salahuddin Ahmed (SAmd)
Instructor(s)
15 Contact sahmed@eee.uiu.ac.bd

16 Office Room # 535 / A

Monday 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
17 Counselling Hours Tuesday 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM

Patterson, David A., and John L. Hennessy. Computer organization and

18 Text Book design: the hardware/software interface. 5th Edition; ISBN: 978-0-12-
407726-3
1. John L. Hennessy, Patterson, David A. Computer Architecture: A
Quantitative Approach. 6th edition, ISBN:
2. Hamacher, Carl, Zvonko Vranesic, and Safwat Zaky. Computer
19 Reference
organization. McGraw-Hill, 2002
3. Stallings, William. Computer organization and architecture: designing
for performance. Pearson Education India, 2000
 CSE 313 Course Syllabus Spring 2019

Bring your own device (Any standard smartphone or tablet or laptop) to participate
20 Equipment & Aids effectively in classroom activities. You are not allowed to borrow from others inside the
classroom during class activities.
To introduce students to the main components of a computer that will help
21 Course Rationale them better understand the computers functional components, their
characteristics, their performance and their interactions.
Information representation and transfer, instruction and data access
methods, the control unit: hardwired and micro-programmed, memory
organization, I/O systems, channels, interrupts, DMA, Von Neumann SISD
organization, RISC and CISC machines. Pipelined machines, interleaved
memory system, caches, Hardware and architectural issues of parallel
machines, Array processors, associative processors, multiprocessors,
22 Course Description systolic processors, data flow computers and interconnection networks,
High level language concept of computer architecture.

This course covers the fundamentals of the operation and design of

computers from the programmer’s and architect’s point of view. It describes
the components of a computer, functions of each component, and how
components interact with each other and with software.
1. Explain the performance metrics to find the system performance
2. Describe instruction set architecture, data representation and
arithmetic operation
23 Course Objectives
3. Discuss the basic principles of a computer system and its work
4. Illustrate current state of art in memory system design
5. Introduce the concepts of parallel processing
A student who successfully fulfills the course requirement will have
demonstrated an ability to:
1. Analyze the system performance
24 Learning Outcomes 2. Explain instruction set architecture and data representation
3. Manipulate processor datapath and control signals
4. Analyze different memory hierarchy of a computer
5. Explain various techniques of parallel computing
25 Teaching Methods Lecture (Lec), Assignment (Asn), Class Test (CT), Question/Answer (QA)

26 Topic Outline
LOs Reading Activities
Class Topics/Assignments
Reference
1,2 Introduction, understanding Performance 1 Chapter 1 Lec, Asn, QA
3~6 Instructions: Language of the Computer 2 Chapter 2 CT1, Lec, QA
7,8 Computer Arithmetic 2 Chapter 3 Les, Asn, QA
9~12 The Processor: Datapath and Control 3 Chapter 4 CT2, Lec, QA
Midterm Exam
13~16 Pipelined Processing, hazards 3 Chapter 4 Lec, Asn, QA
17~20 Exploiting Memory Hierarchy 4 Chapter 5 CT3, Lec, Asn
21~24 Parallel processing techniques 5 Chapter 6 CT4, Lec, QA
Exam: Final
 CSE 313 Course Syllabus Spring 2019

No Assessment Marks Allocated CO1 CO2 CO3 CO4 CO5

Item for Assessing the
COs PO1 PO3 PO3 PO3 PO2
1 Mid Exam 30 √ √ √
Assessment 2 Final Exam 40
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Methods 3 Assignment 5 √ √ √
4 Class Test 10 √ √
5 Participation 5
6

Letter Grade Marks % Grade Point Letter Grade Marks% Grade Point
A (Plain) 90-100 4.00 C+ (Plus) 70-73 2.33
A- (Minus) 86-89 3.67 C (Plain) 66-69 2.00
28 Grading Policy B+ (Plus) 82-85 3.33 C- (Minus) 62-65 1.67
B (Plain) 78-81 3.00 D+ (Plus) 58-61 1.33
B- (Minus) 74-77 2.67 D (Plain) 55-57 1.00
F (Fail) <55 0.00
a. Quiz:
There will be four quizzes in class (Approx. 15 min long each). Best three will be taken
into account.
b. Examination:
Mid-terms and final exams may be closed book, closed notes. The materials for final
Additional Course exam will be informed in due time. There will be no grade exemptions from the final.
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Policies Final examination is not comprehensive.
c. Assignment:
Assignments should be submitted at the beginning of the class on the due date
d. Counseling:
You are expected to follow the counseling time-table as set out in this course.
a. Academic Calendar: http://www.uiu.ac.bd/academic/calendar/
b. Academic Information and Policies:
http://www.uiu.ac.bd/academic/academic-information-policies/
Additional
30 c. Grading and Performance Evaluation:
Information
http://www.uiu.ac.bd/academic/grading-performance-evaluation/
d. Proctorial Rules
http://www.uiu.ac.bd/academic/1192-2/
31 CO-PO Mapping
Program Outcomes(POs)
COs
PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12
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