CPE302/EE302 - Design of Digital Computers

Lectures: Tuesday and Thursday 17:40-19:00, 134 EB.

Instructor: Emil Jovanov, Ph.D.

Office: 213, Engineering Building

Phone: (256) 890 6632

Office hours: Monday/Wednesday 9:00-11:00 AM, Tuesday/Thursday 17:10-17:40 PM

Credit: 3

Prerequisites: EE202 Digital Logic Design

Description: The goal of this course is to provide understanding of the hardware design of digital systems and stored program digital computers. Functional organization of digital computers including number representation, computer hardware, micro-operations, control logic and microprocessor design are presented.

Course Outline:

Introduction and Review (2)
Memory and Programmable Logic (2)
Register/Bus Transfer and Computer Operations (4)
Control Logic Design (4)
Computer Instructions and Addressing Modes (4)
Design of a Central Processing Unit (CPU) (6)
Input/Output and Communication (2)
Memory Management (2)
Tests (2)

Text book: Morris M. Mano, "Computer Engineering, Hardware Design,", Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1998.

Tentative grading:

Homework assignments - 20%
Assay - 10%
Tests - 40%
Final exam - 30%