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.

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

1. Understand how to represent integer and floating point numbers in binary,
2. Evaluate computer performance and compare between different architectures,
3. Implement a simple CPU using a Hardware Description Language,
4. Understand pipelining and its role in performance improvement,
5. Translate a high level program code to assembly language.

• 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

• 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

• 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: starting on Jan. 14, every Wed. from 3:30-5pm at LAS 2013
• TA in charge for office hours

1. Mingfei Wang