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 ====== COMPUTER ORGANIZATION  =====
-==== Summer 2011 ====
+<html><font color = "red" size = "3"><b>Summer 2011</b></font></html>
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+===== Expected Learning Outcomes =====
+By the end of the course, you are expected to be able to:
+  * Translate a given high-level program to assembly/machine language
+    * Represent numbers, characters, and other forms of data in binary
+    * Express logic using assembly language instructions
+    * Utilize registers, the stack, the heap, and the data segment to store data
+    * Encode assembly language instructions in machine language format
+  * Build a CPU out of basic building blocks such as gates and flip-flops
+    * Build the ALU using gates and Verilog
+    * Design the CPU's datapath and control
+    * Implement a pipeline and handle its hazards
+    * Augment the CPU with a cache
-===== Instructor & Office Hours=====
+  * Assess the end-to-end performance
-  * Instructor:<hi #dbe5f1> **Shakil M. Khan** </hi>-- [[http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~skhan]]
+    * Identify the key performance drivers and their physical limits
-  * Email Filter: The string ''CSE2021/X'' in the Subject field, where ''X'' is your username on ''red@cse''
+    * Compare and contrast the RISC and CISC approaches
+    * Compute the throughput of a pipelined CPU for a given code fragment
+    * Analyze the effect of a cache of a given specs on the system's performance
-  * Lectures: R 19:00-22:00 pm in CB 115.
-  * Office Hours: TBA.
-  * Lab: TBA.
+===== Instructor & Office Hours=====
+  * Instructor:<hi #dbe5f1> **Shakil M. Khan** </hi>-- [[http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~skhan]]
+  * Lectures: R 7:00-10:00 pm in CB 115.
+  * Office Hours: R 4:00-6:00 pm in CSE 3026.
+  * Office Phone: +1-416-736-2100 extension 33928 (available only during office hours)
+  * Course Director & Lab Coordinator:<hi #dbe5f1> **Prof. Hamzeh Roumani** </hi>-- [[http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~roumani]]
+  * Lab-01: M 7:00-10:00 pm in CSE 1006.
+  * Email Filter: The string ''CSE2021/X'' in the Subject field, where ''X'' is your username on ''red@cse''
 ===== Teaching Assistants =====
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 ^  TIME  ^  OFFICE  ^  NAME  ^  TYPE OF HELP OFFERED  ^
-|  TBA  |  CSEB 2054  | Mohammad | Any question about the course, including labs |
+|  M 6:00-7:00 pm  |  CSE 1006  | Mohammad | Any question about the course, including labs |
+|   |   |   |  Any pending lab-related question placed on the forum by Friday of each week |
 Add ''@cse.yorku.ca'' to the TA's name to email them.
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 **References**:
   * //Structured Computer Organization, 5th edition,// by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prentice Hall (2006)
   * //MIPS RISC Architecture//, by G. Kane & J. Heinrich, Prentice Hall (1992)
   * //Computer Organization, 5th Edition,// by V.C. Hamacher, Z.G. Vranesic & S.G. Zaky, McGraw-Hill (2002)
   * //Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance, 7th edition, // by William Stallings, Prentice Hall (2006)