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Course Outline: Dire Dawa University Dire Dawa Institute of Technology School of Electrical & Computer Engineering

This document provides a course outline for a Computer Architecture and Organization course offered at Dire Dawa University. The course is a core electrical engineering course offered in the third year, second semester. It is worth 5 ECTS credits and meets for 2 lectures and 3 tutorials per week. The course objectives are to introduce computer system architecture and organization, basic registers and I/O, assembly level programming, control units, and designing basic computer systems. The course is assessed through quizzes, tests, assignments, projects, and a final exam. Key topics include computer organization, the CPU, memory systems, and input/output devices.

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Course Outline: Dire Dawa University Dire Dawa Institute of Technology School of Electrical & Computer Engineering

This document provides a course outline for a Computer Architecture and Organization course offered at Dire Dawa University. The course is a core electrical engineering course offered in the third year, second semester. It is worth 5 ECTS credits and meets for 2 lectures and 3 tutorials per week. The course objectives are to introduce computer system architecture and organization, basic registers and I/O, assembly level programming, control units, and designing basic computer systems. The course is assessed through quizzes, tests, assignments, projects, and a final exam. Key topics include computer organization, the CPU, memory systems, and input/output devices.

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Dire Dawa University

Dire Dawa Institute of Technology


School of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Course outline
Program Regular

Course Title Computer Architecture & Organization

Course Code ECEg3143


Degree Program B.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Module Name Computer Architecture and Programming

Module Number 14
Team Leader
Course Instructor& Adress Girmay.H, [email protected]

ECTS 5
Contact hour per week 2 lec ,3 tutorial,3 home study

Contact Days (time and Monday –Friday 8:00-11:00


room)

Target Group III

Year/Semester III/II

Prerequisites ECEg3141: Digital Logic Design


Status of the course Core Electrical Engineering
Course Objectives and ▪ To introduce the architecture and organization of a computer system and
Learning outcomes its components
(competency)
▪ To introduce and understand basic registers and input output operations
in the computer.
▪ To introduce basics of assembly level programing
▪ To introduce different types of control units in computers
▪ To design and simulate a basic computer system
Detailed course schedule: contact time, topics and reading materials
week Contact Topic/Subtopic/Chapter Reading material Learning
hour and expected outcomes of
assessments each chapters
1 5 Introduction
 Organization and architecture Class notes and Student will be
Text books able to
 Von Neumann versus Harvard
architectures understand the
Quiz 1 basic concept of
 computer evolution, Computer
 models of a computer system system as well as
its organizations
2-3 10 Basic computer organization and Text books and class Student will be
design notes understand the
 computer registers Test 1 basic registers
 register transfer and micro
operations
 instruction codes
 instruction format
4-5 10 Programing the Basic computer Text books and class Students will be
 introduction to machine language notes understand the
basics of
 assembly language
assembly level
 programing arithmetic and logic programing
operations
6-8 10 The Central Processing Unit Students will
 Instruction sets, Instruction Hand out and text understand the
format and addressing modes, books structure of Cpu,
 CPU Structure, RISC and CISC, And arithmetic
Pipelining, Individual- operations
assignment.
 The Control Unit (Hardwired and
Micro programmed
Implementations)

9-10 5 Memory system Class notes and text Student will be


 Classification and hierarchy book able to
understand
of Memory systems,
Test 2 memory
 Main memory, Cache organization of a
computer
Memory, Secondary system
Memory, Other types of
memory

 Memory Management

11 5 Input output systems Text book and other Student will be


 Input Output devices, modes reference books able to
understand basic
of transfer, I/O interface,
input output
 Techniques used for I/O devices and their
operations
Operations: Programmed,
Interrupt-driven, Direct
Memory Access

12 5 System software Class notes and Student will be


 Low level data structures, reference books understand a
system software
 Introduction to operating like operating
systems systems

Course assessment methods


Continuous Assessment Method Weight Week Of Assessment
Quizzes Quiz 1 5% 1
Tests Test1 10% 3
Test2 10% 9
Assignment Individual- 10% 6
And project assignment
projects 15% 6
Final Examination 50% Based on final exam schedule

Textbook:

 Computer system Architecture, M.Morris Mano


 Computer Organization And Architecture Designing For Performance, William Stalling
References:
 David A Patterson: John L. Hennessy: Computer Architecture
 Barry Wilkinson: Computer Architecture Design and Performance

Class room policies


All students are expected to abide by the code of conduct of students Senate Legislation of our
University throughout this course.

 Academic dishonesty, including cheating, fabrication, and plagiarism will not be


tolerated.
 Minimum 80%attendance during lecture
 Late submission of assignment is not allowed
 Cheating fabricating and plagiarism will not be tolerated

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