EE444 Fall 09

EE444-Digital Computer Systems
Fall 2009

Instructor Information

Prof. Mohamed Zahran
e-mail: mzahran ( at ) ccny dot cuny dot edu

With help of my student: Bushra Ahsan
e-mail: ahsan_bushra (at) yahoo dot com

Course Information

EE444/S

Meeting time: Tu-Th 5-6:15pm

Meeting place: NAC5102

Goals

Understand how computers work
Understand the interaction between software and hardware
Understand the basics of computer hardware design

Course Syllabus

Announcements

Hello Students, welcome to EE444 course, edition Fall 2009!

As a quick review of the logic design stuff (EE210 course), here is a quick summary prepared by Bushra Ahsan. Also you can check appendix C in the textbook (CD-ROM).

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The lectures shown below will be available before class. However, some of the links may not be working
till before the lecture.

Midterm 1 will be Tuesday 20th of October and includes lectures 1 to 8

Midterm 2 will be Thursday 19th of November and includes lectures 9 to 17

Based on students wish (!) we will do our final exam in the last day of classes Dec 10th and is cumulative (i.e. all lectures).

Lectures

Lecture Files Text Reading

1. Introduction                      pdf 1.1 and 1.2

2. Overview                              pdf

3. High-Level Language          pdf

4. Assembly Language:           pdf                            2.1 and 2.2
    An Overview

5. Assembly Language            pdf                             2.3, 2.6, and 2.7
    Level: MIPS

6. Assembly Language:         pdf                             2.8 and B.6
    MIPS (more techniques)

7. Machine Language              pdf                             2.4, 2.5, and 2.12

8. Revision: From HLL           pdf
   to Machine Language

9. Microarchitecture Level pdf 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3

Introduction

10. Microarchitecture pdf

Design

11. Microarchitecture pdf

Design II

12. Microarchitecture Level   pdf
      Control Unit

13. Microarchitecture Level    pdf
      Control Unit II

14. Performance                        pdf                            1.4
      Evaluation

15. Memory System                pdf                               5.1 and 5.2

16. More on Cache                   pdf                              5.3
       Memory

17. Revision: pdf
Microarch & Memory

18. Kernel Mode and pdf

Virtual Memory

19. I/O pdf 6.1, 6.5, and 6.6

20. Advanced Topics pdf