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Spring 2009
Instructor: Vincent P. Heuring
Department of Electrical and
Computer Enginering
Office: ECEE1B55 (Engineering Building, Rm 1B55)
Ofc. Hrs. Tu 1-2pm, Th 9:30-10:30
Or by Appointment
Phone: 492-8751 Fax 303-492-2758
email heuring@colorado.edu
Assistant: Jeries Shihadeh
Department of Electrical and
Computer Enginering
Office: TBA
Ofc. Hrs. M 5:15-6:15
Or by Appointment
Phone: TBA Fax 303-492-2758
email Jeries.Shihadeh@Colorado.EDU

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  • There is a 3-page acrobat handout on Performance Measurement; download it here and read it carefully.

GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

    1. This class is open for credit to Graduate Students Only.
    2. You must have a textbook on the first day of class. Click the textbook link above for information.
    3. The ONLY prerequisite for the class is a Higher Level Programming Language, such as Pascal, C, or FORTRAN.
    4. This class is not open to students who have already had Digital Logic Circuits, Assembly Language Programming, and Computer Architecture/Organization. If you have had these prerequisite courses you should enroll in ECEN5593, Advanced Computer Architecture. See Prof. Heuring if you are unsure about this rule.

Special notes to CAETE students:

Assignments and exams will be returned by the normal CAETE channel.

In the instructor's experience, the sooner assignments and exams are completed the better the student seems to do.

CAETE Students should have access to a PC, Mac, or Unix machine in their local environment (not dialup) that has the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for Java 1.2 or higher. We will be running Java-based architecture simulators throughout the semester, so if you know you will be registered for this course, you might get busy now being sure you have access to a JVM version 1.2 or higher. You can download a free JVM for Windows PCs Macs, and Linux PCs here. Note: You will not be doing any Java programming, just running our simulator that requires that Java be installed on your machine.

FYI

  • Real World Technologies is a good source for indepth articles on computer technology. Click Here
  • Interested in newest kinds of RAMs? Click Here
  • Interested in microprocessor history?Click Here
  • Visit the Virtual Museum of Computing