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-====== Your Course  ======
+====== EECS 2021 Computer Organization  ======
-===== Description  =====
+===== Course Outline  =====
-The course lays the conceptual foundation of object-oriented programming. It covers delegation and contracts, encapsulation and API programming, aggregation and the collections framework, inheritance and polymorphism, all from the client's perspective.
+This course provides a description of how computers work by following the abstraction trail from the high-level programming layer down to the digital-logic component layer. By understanding how the features of each abstraction layer are implemented in the one beneath it, one can grasp the tapestry of the software/hardware interface.
+Topics include programming in assembly language, machine instructions and their encoding formats, translating and loading high-level programs, computer organization and performance issues, CPU structure, single/multi-cycle datapath and control, pipelining, and memory hierarchy. The course presents theoretical concepts as well as concrete implementations on a modern RISC processor.
+The lab sessions (3 hours/week) involve experiments on assembly and machine language, hardware description languages and simulators, processor architectures, cache memories.
+===== Course Learning Outcomes =====
+By the end of the course, the students will be expected to 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
 ===== Lecture Times =====
-  * Section A: Mondays and Fridays, 11:00am - 12:00pm, CSE 111
+  * Section A: Mondays and Wednesdays, 5:30pm - 7:00pm, CLH A