ECE 511 MICROPROCESSORS
Fall 2008 M 16:30 - 19:10 R Room A243

Prof. Daniel Tabak, ST2 Rm.235, dtabak@gmu.edu
Office hours: M W 14:00 – 15:00

Materials:

PDF Version of the Syllabus

RISC

Recommended Problems (Word or PDF)

Peripherals (Word or PDF)

Intel 8259

Pipeline

Sun Sparc

Prerequisite:

• ECE 445 or equivalent

Course Outline:

1. Introduction to Microprocessors [1, Ch.1]  Week 1, 8/25
2. Microprocessor Architecture [1, Ch.2-6] Weeks 2-4, 9/8,15,22
3. Memory Interface [1, Ch.10] Week 5, 9/29
4. I/O Interface [1, Ch.11 – 13,15] Week 7, 10/14
5. Advanced Intel Microprocessors  80486,Pentium 4, Core 2 [1, Ch.17 -19] Weeks 8,9, 10/20,27
6. Pipelining [3, Ch.6] Week 10, 11/3
7. RISC [2, Ch.6] Week 11, 11/10
8. Examples of RISC Microprocessors: Sun SPARC [2, Ch.16;  5], MIPS [2, Ch.17; 4] Week 12, 11/17
9. Introduction to Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP). ILP implementation in Pentium 4 and Core2. Week 14, 12/1

Main Text:

1. B.B.Brey, The Intel Microprocessors, 8th ed., Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009 ISBN 0-13-502645-8

References:

2. D.Tabak, Advanced Microprocessors, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill,1995.
3. D.A.Patterson, J.L.Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design, 3rd ed., Elsevier, 2007.
4. R.L.Britton, MIPS Assembly Language Programming, Pearson/Prentice Hall,2004
5. D.L.Weaver, T.Germond, The SPARC Architecture Manual, Prentice-Hall, 1994

Student Evaluation:

Midterm 1  M  Oct.6,2008  (35%) Week 6
Midterm 2  M  Nov.24,2008  (35%) Week 13
Term paper, assigned to a team of two. Due:  M  Dec.1,2008

All exams are open material. Term papers should be word processed, presented on stapled paper (no binding), one copy per team.

Teaching Assistant:

Mr.Marcin Rogawski. Office hours:
Thursday 5 - 7pm, ST2, Room 220

Last Updated: 10/23/08