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ECE 352F - Computer Organization

Paul Chow

Fall 1998

Home Page

There is a home page for this course. It can be found by going to

http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~pc/courses/ece352f

It should also be available at

http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/apsc/courses/

and clicking on the link to ECE352F.

The most recent versions of this handout, other handouts, and the labs, will be accessible there. Watch the home page for updates on test dates and locations, and other news for the class.

  
Instructor

Professor Paul Chow
LP484A
978-2402
pc@eecg.toronto.edu
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~pc

Office Hours

It works best to get me after lectures or make an appointment. You can also send me email.

Lectures

Wednesday Thursday Friday
4-5 10-11 2-3
GB120 MS2173 WB119

  
Labs and Lab Assignments

Labs are on Monday from 12-3 in GB144/150. We will most likely only use GB150, with overflow into GB144.

Grades for the labs are assigned according to the scale shown in the table below.

1 Attended lab
5 Prep looks okay
7 Design has minor problems
9 Design works for all cases
10 Above and beyond call of duty:
  extra features, be creative

There will be about 10 lab periods of which three will be used for a project of your own design.

  
Textbooks

The text is the same as for ECE253F:

Hamacher, Vranesic, Zaky, Computer Organization, fourth edition, McGraw Hill, 1996.

We will also be doing some material on asynchronous circuits. I hope the lecture notes will be sufficient, but a good reference is:

Morris Mano, Digital Design, second edition, Prentice-Hall, 1991, Chapter 9.

  
Grading

There will be one midterm test and a final exam.

Midterm Date: Monday, November 2, 1998 in GB150 and GB144 from 12-2.

The composition of the final grade is as follows:

Lab Assignments 10%
Lab Project 5%
Midterm 25%
Final Exam 60%

The Midterm and Final Exam are Type D (examiner specified aids) and NO calculators of any kind are permitted.


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