Com Sci 222/322
Machine Organization
Winter 1998

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[5 January 1999] The 1999 version of the Com Sci 222/322 Web page is now at http://www.classes.cs.uchicago.edu/classes/archive/1999/winter/CS222/. We are in the process of updating the material, so some 1998 anachronisms remain on 5 January.

[19 Mar] I posted comments on the final grades. I sent each of you an audit of your performance, and a final grade, by e-mail. I'm sure there are no errors, but if there are, please report them quickly.

[19 Mar] I posted comments on the final exam. I will leave the graded exams with Margaret Jaffey in Ryerson 161A. I'll e-mail an audit of your grade when I'm done with the grading.

Taught in winter 1998, MWF 1:30, Ryerson 275.
Instructor: Michael J. O'Donnell (odonnell@cs.uchicago.edu)
- Office: Ryerson 165B, 165A.
- Office hours: by appointment. Contact me by email (odonnell@cs.uchicago.edu), phone at the office (773-702-1269), or phone at home (847-835-1837 between 9:30 and 5:30 on days that I work at home). You may drop in to the office any time, but you may find me out or busy if you haven't confirmed an appointment. Check my personal schedule before proposing an appointment.
Assistant: Guanshan Tong (guanshan@cs.uchicago.edu)
- Office: Ryerson 403-c16
- We are sharing Mr. Tong's services with another course. He will mainly provide support for computing infrastructure, rather than grading and consultation. Address problems regarding course software to Mr. Tong.

Last modified: Tue Jan 5 16:10:24 CST 1999

Prerequisites: Com Sci 117, or general skill at programming
Description: CS 222 covers computer organization (computer architecture), and assembly language programming. Based on the idea of levels of abstraction in talking about and implementing computing engines we study both hardware and software based technologies used in today's computers. There is a quick overview of current technologies, quantitative reasoning about performance, performance-cost tradeoffs, notions of digital logic, assembly language programming, and an introduction to issues in modern processor design (instruction set selection, pipelining, memory hierarchy, and parallelism).
Required Text: Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach, 2nd edition, by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, 1996, ISBN 1-55860-329-8.

Instead of going to the bookstore, you may wish to order the text from Book Pool ($60.95, the cheapest that I've found so far), the publisher ($79.95), from Barnes & Noble online ($79.95), Amazon ($79.95), or other book vendors.
Supplemental Reading: Computer Organization & Design, 2nd edition, by David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, 1998, ISBN 1-55860-491-X.

Previous version of the course, taught by Janos Simon, winter 1997.

CSE 322 Computer Architecture at Boston University
CS320 Computer Architecture at Bucknell University
CSE 431 Introduction to Computer Architecture at Pennsylvania State University
CSE 530 Fundamentals of Computer Architecture at Pennsylvania State University
CS 152 Computer Architecture and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
CS 252 Graduate Computer Architecture at University of California, Berkeley
CMSC 411 at University of Maryland
CS 314 at University of Oregon
CIS 501 Computer Architecture at University of Pennsylvania

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