This course covers fundamentals and
recent developments in computer architecture. Topics include arithmetic,
instruction set, processor, memory, storage, I/O, multiprocessors, and
clusters.
Lectures
- COB
113, Monday and Wednesday 4:30 pm to
5:45 pm
Lab sessions
- SE
138, Thursday 6:00 pm to 9:50 pm
Office hours and
contact information
- Instructor:
Ming-Hsuan Yang (Please
call me Ming-Hsuan)
- Email:
mhyang @ ucmerced dot edu
- Office
hours: Wednesday 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm, SE 258
- Teaching
assistant: Chih-Yuan Yang (cyang35 @ ucmerced dot edu)
- TA
hours: Thursday 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, SE 138
- Computer abstractions and technology
- Instructions: Language of the computer
- Arithmetic for computers
- Processor
- Memory
- Storage and I/O
- Multicores,
multiprocessors, and clusters
- Graphics processing units
- Cloud computing