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<TITLE>Computer System Design--More Information</TITLE>

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<H2>Computer System Design--Additional Information</H2>
G22.2233
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Thursday 5:00-7:00
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Room 101, CIMS
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<h4><strong>Pradeep K. Dubey</strong></h4>
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Back to the <!WA1><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/dept_info/course_home_pages/spr96/G22.2233/index.html">Computer System Design Home Page</A>.<P>

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<H2>Table of Contents</H2>

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<!WA3><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/dept_info/course_home_pages/spr96/G22.2233/more-course-info.html#course-descr">Course Description</A>
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<!WA4><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/dept_info/course_home_pages/spr96/G22.2233/more-course-info.html#instr-descr">About the Instructor</A>
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<!WA6><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/dept_info/course_home_pages/spr96/G22.2233/more-course-info.html#TAinfo">TA Information and How/Where to get Help?</A>
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<!WA8><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/dept_info/course_home_pages/spr96/G22.2233/more-course-info.html#class-notes">Class Notes</A>
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Solutions to Assigned Homeworks</A>
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<H3><A NAME="course-descr">Course Description</A></H3

Prerequisite or corequisite:  G22.1170  (Fundamental Algorithms)
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Intended to give students whose main interest is in software, an
introduction to the important principles of computer organization
and design.  Topics covered include:  logic design basics,
basics of performance evaluation, instruction sets, arithmetic
for computers, processor datapath and control, pipelining,
memmory hierarchy, interfacing processors and peripherals,
parallel processor basics.

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<H3><A NAME="instr-descr">About the Instructor</A></H3>

Pradeep K. Dubey is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the
Department of Computer Science at New York University.
He is currently employed by
<!WA14><a href="http://www.ibm.com/">IBM</a>
at the
<!WA15><a href="http://www.watson.ibm.com/">T. J. Watson Research Center</a>
as a member of the Advanced RISC Systems group.
He worked for Intel Corporation
<!WA16><a href="http://www.intel.com/">Intel Corporation</a>
from 1984 to 1991 and was on the design teams of the 80386,
80486, and Pentium processors.
He received the B.S. degree in Electronics, with distinction from
<!WA17><a href="http://www.mgmt.purdue.edu/MIS/BIT/bit.html">Birla Institute
of Technology</a>, Mesra, India, in 1982,
M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer engineering from
<!WA18><a href="http://www.umass.edu/">University of Massachusetts</a>
at Amherst, in 1984, and the Ph.D.
in Electrical Engineering from
<!WA19><a href="http://www.purdue.edu/">Purdue University</a> in 1991.
He has also participated in 
<!WA20><a href="http://umunhum.stanford.edu/">advanced processor research</a>
efforts at
<!WA21><a href="http://www.stanford.edu/">Stanford University</a>.
His research interests include
<!WA22><a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www/">computer architecture</a>
and performance modeling.
He is also a Senior Member of
<!WA23><a href="http://www.ieee.org/">IEEE</a>.

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<H3><A NAME="textbook">Textbook</A></H3>

Patterson and Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: 
The Hardware / Software Interface, Morgan Kaufmann.

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<H3><A NAME="TAinfo">TA Information</A></H3>

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Fangzhe Chang
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[phone]
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If you need help with the class material, you have the following four
options:
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Send me an email with your question
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Send the TA an email with your question
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Meet me during my office hour right after the class in my office
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Send an email to the TA to set-up a meeting time.
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<H3><A NAME="class-news">Class News</A></H3>
<blink><strong>Important Announcement:</strong></blink>
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</TABLE></CENTER><CENTER><H2>Final Exam Score Distribution</H2><TABLE BORDER=3 CELLPADDING=2 WIDTH="50%">
<TR><TH>Range</TH><TH>Number of Students</TH></TR>
<TR><TH ALIGN=center>90-100</TH><TD ALIGN=center>2</TD>
<TR><TH ALIGN=center>81-90</TH><TD ALIGN=center>0</TD>
<TR><TH ALIGN=center>71-80</TH><TD ALIGN=center>2</TD>
<TR><TH ALIGN=center>61-70</TH><TD ALIGN=center>2</TD>
<TR><TH ALIGN=center>51-60</TH><TD ALIGN=center>4</TD>
<TR><TH ALIGN=center>41-50</TH><TD ALIGN=center>4</TD>
<TR><TH ALIGN=center>31-40</TH><TD ALIGN=center>1</TD>
<TR><TH ALIGN=center>21-30</TH><TD ALIGN=center>2</TD>
<TR><TH ALIGN=center>0-20</TH><TD ALIGN=center>0</TD>
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</TABLE></CENTER><CENTER><H2>Final Grade Distribution</H2><TABLE BORDER=3 CELLPADDING=2 WIDTH="50%">
<TR><TH>Grade</TH><TH>Number of Students</TH></TR>
<TR><TH ALIGN=center>A</TH><TD ALIGN=center>2</TD>
<TR><TH ALIGN=center>B+</TH><TD ALIGN=center>5</TD>
<TR><TH ALIGN=center>B</TH><TD ALIGN=center>3</TD>
<TR><TH ALIGN=center>B-</TH><TD ALIGN=center>4</TD>
<TR><TH ALIGN=center>C+</TH><TD ALIGN=center>2</TD>
<TR><TH ALIGN=center>C</TH><TD ALIGN=center>1</TD>
<TR><TH ALIGN=center>C-</TH><TD ALIGN=center>0</TD>
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<strong>Final Exam Solutions:</strong>
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<strong>Important Announcement:</strong>
Final Exam will be on May 9, 1996 (Thu) from 5-7p in the same class room.
It will cover all the material covered in class lectures and
homeworks upto the last lecture on May 2.
It will be a closed book exam.
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<strong>Important Announcement:</strong>
Final homework solutions will be posted 
on the course homepage on May 2 (last day of class).  So if you intend
to turn in this homework and have not yet done so,
you must turn it in latest by May 1.
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In order to not lose a lecture and cover more material,
I have decided not to offer any midterm.  Midterm weight
will be added to the final exam. 
Homework weight stays the same.

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<strong>SPIM Access Information </strong>
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1. login sparky or slinky or any other machine which can access slinky.b file system.
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2. cd ~fangzhe/spim/bin
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3. type "xspim" or "spim". (xspim provides x-window interface.)
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4. load any .s file in the directory ../Tests
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5. if you like you can add
      /slinky.b/csphd/fangzhe/spim/bin
    in your PATH environment variable
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6. There is documentation available in the directory ~fangzhe/spim/Documentation. You can also read appendix A of the textbook.


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<H3><A NAME="class-notes">Class Notes (postscript files)</A></H3>

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<!WA30><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/dept_info/course_home_pages/spr96/G22.2233/class-notes/class1.ps#class-1">Class-1: 1/25/96</A>
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<!WA31><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/dept_info/course_home_pages/spr96/G22.2233/class-notes/class2.ps#class-2">Class-2: 2/1/96</A>
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<!WA35><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/dept_info/course_home_pages/spr96/G22.2233/class-notes/class6.ps#class-6">Class-6: 2/29/96</A>
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<!WA36><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/dept_info/course_home_pages/spr96/G22.2233/class-notes/class7.ps#class-7">Class-7: 3/7/96</A>
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<!WA37><A HREF="http://cs.nyu.edu/cs/dept_info/course_home_pages/spr96/G22.2233/class-notes/class8.ps#class-8">Class-8: 3/21/96</A>
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