Please see below the information about the final exam:
•Exam type: Moodle online exam
•Time: Sat, 1st May
•Duration: 2 hours
•Exam open time: 14:00 (Sydney time)
•Exam close time:17:00 (Sydney time)
More information can be found in the lecture notes of the last lecture (Tuesday lecture of Week 10).
I will be available in the course's consultation channel on MS Teams during the exam period.
The form for Member's Contribution to Group Project is available on the Assignment page.
The form is open till 6pm, Monday, April 26.
Please be informed that the group project presentation is postponed to your TLB class.
In your TLB class next week (Week 10), each project group will present your project work in the first two hours to the class and then demonstrate your design to your lab tutors.
For the presentation, each group is given 25 mins (including 5 mins for Q&A) to present your work in the following four areas:
1. overall desgin idea that includes ISA, assembly code, and processor organization
2. implementation that covers HDL model and performance analysis
3. testing that covers testing strategies and simulation results
4. conclusions that covers project outcomes and reflection on the project development
Note: for groups with less than 4 members, a member is allowed to present their work in more than one area.
The sample peer assessment form is available on the Assignment page.
Also, the SMS is ready to receive your report submission via the course website. The deadline for the submission is 18:00:00, Friday April 23.
For Quiz 6 this week, there are some changes. Please read the quiz instructions before attempting the quiz.
The lab and quiz marks have been uploaded to SMS. To find your marks, login to your CSE account and type the following command.
3211 classrun -sturec
The links for the Monday and Tuesday lecture meetings are available on the Lectures page of the course website.<o:p></o:p>
I will start the meeting 5 mins before the lecture (namely, 11:55 for Monday, 9:55 for Tuesday). You can join the meeting afterwards.<o:p></o:p>
Before the lecture starts, please turn off Notification on your computer and mute your mobile phone. If you have any question, post it in chat.
Welcome to Computer Architecture (COMP3211/9211) 21T1.
In this course, all lectures, tutorials and labs are conducted online over MS Teams.
Please take a look at the course outline for the general information about this course and complete the following survey .
The rapid advances of the computing system have equipped us with enormous power and opportunities, which were, however, unthinkable many years ago.
What role does the computer architecture play in pushing such advances? What is the computer architecture about? What potential can it offer for the future generation computing? These are the questions to be addressed in this course.
By completing this course, you will appreciate the ultimate importance of hardware to software, be able to evaluate a hardware design, enjoy a processor designed by you and your group members for a given application, and finally develop a strong sense of potential hardware solutions to various aspects of computer system design issues, including performance, cost, scalability, and security.