Associate Professor of Computer Science & Information Systems
The goals of this course are to give basic knowledge of computer systems at architecture level, the principles of structures and functions of the Von neumann computer systems, and some advanced computer architectures such as parallel computer, dataflow computer, and RISC. This is the typical hardware course for computer science majors. The prerequisite for this course is CS350 (computer organization), therefore I expect all of you have some knowledge about the computer system structures and digital logic circuits.
Assignments
There will be three assignments, two on architecture design and one on assembly
language programming (CISC and RISC). You are encouraged to help
each other on the assignments, but you can not simply copy from each other.
all assignments are due at the class on the due day. Later homework will
have 10% subtracted from the score for every late day.
Communication
The public directory, /usr/public/liu in cs1, will be
used to post assignments. You are also encouraged to send me
email
about your questions related to the course or share related information
with the class.
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