Course Outline 343 744 Revised PDF

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Queens College Department of Computer Science Course Outline CS 343 / 744 Professor’s Information Prof. Anne Smith-Thompson Office Hours: Tuesday / Friday 8:15 - 9:00 AM or by appointment email: [email protected] Course Content I. Introduction – The Hardware – Software Interface II. Data Representation and Computer Arithmetic A) Integer Representations B) Floating Point Representation C) Floating Point Arithmetic D) Logical Operations III. State Machine Design A) Function Implementations: gate, decoder, mux B) “Simplest” SOP form – Shannon’s Theorem, Karnaugh Maps C) Sequential Circuits / State Machine Design Test 1-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------IV. Datapath A) Simple Implementation B) Pipelining C) Data Hazards D) Control Hazards E) Parallelism F) Performance Evaluation Test 2 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

V. Memory Organization A) Cache 1

B) Virtual Memory and Replacement Protocols C) Memory Heirarchies D) Virtual Machines VI. Cloud Computing Textbook: Computer Organization and Design. 5th edition. David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy. Morgan-Kaufmann Publishers. 2013 Class Notes Textbook references will be posted prior to the introduction of each topic. Assignments/ Quizzes: There will be occasional quizzes (announced and unannounced) and/or graded assignments. NOTE: Quizzes will be the same for C 343 and CS 744 students, but CS 744 will have supplementary assignments. The total of all quizzes and assignments will be assigned a “letter grade” and the associated grade point will be used t calculate the final grade. Tests There will be two in-class exams. An outline will be provided before each exam. NOTE: CS 343 and CS 744 will have some different questions on exams. Test grades will be recorded by “letter grades”, and the associated grade points will be used to calculate the final grade. Final Exam The final is cumulative, but will be more heavily based on material covered after Test 2. NOTE: There will be different final exams for CS 343 and CS 744. Grade Calculation Quizzes 15% Tests (2) 50% Final 35% If you are absent for a test or quiz, you must contact me at [email protected] and take a make-up by the next class. Tests not made up will be given a grade of 0.

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