EECS2021

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Computer Organization

===== Description  =====

CSE2021 provides a description of how computers work by following the abstraction trails form the high-level programming layer down to the digital-logic component layer. Topics include language of the computer, arithmetic for computers, processor, memory, storage and input/output, and other emerging topics. 


===== Learning Outcomes =====

By the end of the course, students should be able to:

  - Translate high-level code to assembly language and machine code,
  - Represent data in machine readable form and describe how it is stored and manipulated in a CPU,
  - Synthesize hardware of increasing complexity from logic gates to a simple CPU using a Hardware Description Language,
  - Evaluate computer performance and compare performance on different architectures and designs
  - Describe and critique I/O and parallel hardware

===== Instructor & Office Hours =====

  * Professor Peter Lian - peterlian AT cse DOT yorku DOT ca, [[http://www.cse.yorku.ca/cspeople/faculty/peterlian/index.html]]
  * Office Hours: MW 15:00 - 17:00 or by appointment
  * Office location: 1012C Lassonde Building


===== Lecture and Lab Times =====

  * Lectures: Mondays and Wednesdays, 17:30 - 19:00, CLH A
  * Lab-01: Mondays 19:00 - 22:00 LAS 1006
  * Lab-02: Tuesday 19:00 - 22:00 LAS 1006/1004

===== Teaching Assistants =====
  * Mingfei Wang, mingfei AT cse DOT yorku DOT ca
  * Yangtuo Peng, tim AT cse DOT yorku DOT ca
  * Reza Soltani, rts AT cse DOT yorku DOT ca
  * Feng Gao, gaofeng AT cse DOT yorku DOT ca

===== TA Office Hour ======
  * TA office hour: starting on Jan. 14, every Thursday. from 16:30-18:00 at Room 114 of Farquharson Building
  * TA in charge for office hours
  - Mingfei Wang