CIS 371 (Spring 2011): Digital Systems Organization and Design

Instructor:	Prof. Milo Martin
Lecture:	Tuesday/Thursday 12-1:20pm
E-mail:	cis371@cis
TAs:	Jim Anderson, Cem Karan
Lab TAs:	Zach Meister, Vin Mannino, Mishal Awadah

Course Schedule

Announcements

[May 6] - 2011 final solutions
[May 4] - Homework 2 Solution
[April 20] - Homework 2
[April 6] - Lab 3
[Mar 22] - Lab 2
[Mar 16] - Homework 1 Solution
[Feb 16] - Lab 0, Homework 1 and Lab 1 are now available
[Jan 24] - Web page up

Lab/Office Hours

Prof. Martin (606 Levine):
- By appointment

All TA office hours are held in the KLab (Moore 204):

Monday: 12:30pm to 4:30pm (Mish)
Tuesday: 6pm to 7:30pm (Jim)
Wednesday: 1pm to 4pm (Zach)
Thursday: 3pm to 7pm (Vin) & 6pm to 7:30pm (Cem)

Lecture Notes

Unit 0 - Introduction (1.5 lectures)
Unit 1 - Instruction Set Architectures (2.5 lectures)
Unit 2 - Digital Logic & Hardware Description (2 lectures)
Unit 3 - Single-Cycle Datapath (1 lecture)
Unit 4 - Arithmetic (1 lecture)
Unit 5 - Pipelining (3 lectures)
Unit 6 - Performance (1 lecture)
Unit 7 - Caches (3 lectures)
Unit 8 - Virtual Memory (2 lectures)
Unit 9 - Superscalar (2 lectures)
Unit 10 - Lab Hints (0.5 lectures)
Unit 11 - Static & Dynamic Scheduling - Static & Dynamic Scheduling - 4up (2 lectures)
Unit 12 - Multicore - Multicore - 4up (3 lectures)
Unit 13 - Vectors (0.5 lectures)
Unit 14 - Power (0.5 lectures)
Unit 15 - Xbox 360 (0.5 lectures)

Textbook Addendum

Assignments

Labs

Exams

2009 midterm - 2009 midterm solutions (Prof. Martin)
2010 midterm - 2010 midterm solutions (Prof. Roth)
2011 midterm - 2011 midterm solutions (Prof. Martin)
2009 final 2009 final solutions (Prof. Martin)
2010 final solutions (Prof. Roth)
2011 final 2011 final solutions (Prof. Martin)

Schedule

See the Course Schedule

Course Syllabus

Course Description

The description from the course catalog:

(Prerequisite(s): CIS 240, knowledge of at least one programming language).
This is the second computer organization course and focuses on computer
hardware design. Topics covered are: (1) basic digital system design
including finite state machines, (2) instruction set design and simple RISC
assembly programming, (3) quantitative evaluation of computer performance,
(4) circuits for integer and floating-point arithmetic, (5) datapath and
control, (6) micro-programming, (7) pipelining, (8) storage hierarchy and
virtual memory, (9) input/output, (10) different forms of parallelism
including instruction level parallelism, data-level parallelism using both
vectors and message-passing multi-processors, and thread-level parallelism
using shared memory multiprocessors. Basic cache coherence and
synchronization.

Prerequisites

CIS240 is an absolute prerequisite for this course.

Grading

Grading breakdown for the course is as follows:

Homeworks: 15%
Labs: 30%
Midterm exams: 20%
Final exam: 35%

Reading Materials

We will use one textbook: Patterson and Hennessy, "Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware Software Interface" (the most recent edition).

Academic misconduct such as cheating will not be tolerated. The work you submit in this class is expected to be your own. If you submit work that has in part or in whole been copied from some published or unpublished source (including current or former students), or that has been prepared by someone other than you, or that in any way misrepresents somebody else's work as your own, you will face severe discipline by the university. (Adapted from text appearing at the Office of Student Conduct page.)

Any detected cases of cheating will be pursued. Penalties can include: receiving a zero on the assignment (the minimum penalty), failing the course, having a note placed in your permanent academic record, suspension, and ultimately expulsion.

See Penn's Code of Academic Integrity for more information.