CSE142: Computer Architecture: Software Perspective (2023 Summer Session II)
In-person Lecture: MTuWTh 2:00p – 3:20p @ WLH 2205
Online: Zoom (please find the link on Canvas) or https://www.youtube.com/profusagi
Discussion session: W 4p-4:50p @ PCYNH 121
Instructor
Hung-Wei Tseng
email: htseng @ ucsd.edu
Office Hours: TuW 3:30p-4:30p @ CSE 3128
Online Office Hour: M 8:30p-9:30p @ Zoom Office Hour Link
Teaching Assistant
Leon Li
e-mail: xul065 @ ucsd.edu
Office Hours: TuTh 12p-2p on Zoom
Jerry Ho
e-mail: chh009 @ ucsd.edu
Office Hours: M 4p-6p on Zoom
Other important links
Quizzes, Assignments, Grading: Canvas
Discussion Forum on Piazza: https://piazza.com/class/lkwy1ccytqc3ct/
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/profusagi
Course Overview
This course will describe the basics of modern processor operation. Topics include computer system performance, instruction set architectures, pipelining, branch prediction, memory-hierarchy design, and a brief introduction to multiprocessor architecture issues. This course is taught in tandem with CSE142L. Unless you have discussed it with you me, you should be in enrolled in both.
Text books
Required: Patterson & Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design MIPS Edition: The Hardware/Software Interface (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design) 6th Edition
Required: Other assigned readings throughout the quarter.
Grading
- Homework 20%
Homeworks will be assigned throughout the course. - Class participation 10% (in-person session only)
This class uses “peer instruction” and your participation in discussion questions during the lecture is important to the success of the class! - Reading Quizzes 15%
We will have reading quizzes on Canvas! - Midterm 20% (in-person session) / 30% (online session)
- Final 35%
The final will be cumulative. - Additional notes about grades in this course
- Your score will be available on Canvas. Your final grade is the weighted average of these grades.
We do our best to record grades accurately, but you should double-check. - Late submission: We do not accept any late submission, including quiz, assignments, projects.
- Errors in grading: If you feel there has been an error in how an assignment or test was graded, you have 3 days from when the assignment is return to bring it to our attention. You must submit (via email to the instructor and the appropriate TAs) a written description of the problem through gradescope. Neither I nor the TAs will discuss regrades without receiving a gradescope request from you about it first.
- For midterm and final: We do not regrade on a single problem. We will re-grade your whole test. The 3-day regrading window still applies.
- Final grades: If you have a problem with your final grade in the course, send me email and we can set up an appointment to discuss it.
- Your score will be available on Canvas. Your final grade is the weighted average of these grades.
Schedule and Slides
Assignments
- Assignment #1
- Questions & Template
- Due 8/13/2023 midnight
- Assignment #2
- Questions & Template
- Due 8/20/2023 midnight
- Assignment #3
- Questions & Template
- Due 8/27/2023 Midnight
- Assignment #4
- Questions & Template
- Due 9/3/2023 Midnight
- Assignment #5
- Questions & Template
- Due 9/7/2023 Midnight (no extensions)
- Cheating WILL be taken seriously. Doing otherwise is not fair to honest students. It is also not fair to allow the cheater to thing that it is a reasonable alternative in life.
- Please review the UCSD student handbook for more details on Academic Integrity.
- Anyone copying information or having information copied during a test will receive an F for the class and will not be allowed to drop. They will be reported to their college dean. If you can prove non-cooperative copying took place, your grade may be restored, but you must prove it to the dean–I don’t want to be involved. Anyone caught cheating or falsely representing the work of others on the homework will not be allowed to turn in further homework. Your grade will be based exclusively on the tests with a penalty of 25% OR GREATER applied.
- We photocopy a random sampling of the exams in order to ensure that students do not modify their tests after they have been returned.
- Online solutions, etc.: A solutions manual exists for this text. Using it, or any solutions you may find on the internet elsewhere IS CHEATING and will be dealt with accordingly. We know what the solution manual solutions look like. Homework is a small fraction of your grade, so cheating on it is unproductive.