Department of Industrial Engineering

CE 403 | Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Name

Computer Architecture and Organization

Code	Semester	Theory (hour/week)	Application/Lab (hour/week)	Local Credits	ECTS
CE 403	SPRING	3	0	3	5

Prerequisites	None
Course Language	English
Course Type	ELECTIVE_COURSE
Course Level	First Cycle
Mode of Delivery	Face-To-Face
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course	Lectures and project
National Occupational Classification Code	-
Course Coordinator	Prof. Dr. Yusuf Murat Erten
Course Lecturer(s)	Prof. Dr. Yusuf Murat Erten
Assistant(s)	-

Course Objectives

The objective of the course is to help students to develop a familiarity with overall operation of a computer. Terms and their underlying concepts such as processors, primary memory, secondary memory, input/output, microarchitecture, instruction sets, addressing, flow of control, operating systems, assembly language and parallel architectures will be introduced in the course.

Learning Outcomes

The students who succeeded in this course;

Name	Description	PC Sub	* Contribution Level
Name	Description	PC Sub	1	2	3	4	5
LO6	understand different CPU designs and their principle of operation					X
LO5	establish the relationship between the assembly language and computer hardware					X
LO4	will be able to express how a computer instruction is transformed into a set of hardware signals,				X
LO3	will be able to present hardware and software alternatives in implementing a functionality of a computer,					X
LO2	will be able to discuss the relationship between hardware and software components of a computer,					X
LO1	will be able to explain how a user program is executed on the multilevel structure of a computer,					X

Course Description

Computer Hardware Components, Microprogramming, Instruction Sets, Assembly Language Instructions, Parallel Architectures.

Related Sustainable Development Goals

Course Category	Core Courses
	Major Area Courses	X
	Supportive Courses
	Media and Managment Skills Courses
	Transferable Skill Courses

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week	Subjects	Required Materials	Learning Outcome
1	Introduction	Stallings Chapter 1	c34254bb
2	Performance problems	Stallings Chapter 2	c34254bb
3	Computer components	Stallings Chapter 3	c34254bb
4	Memory organization	Stallings Chapter 4,5	f50a8eb4
5	Memory organization	Stallings Chapter 5,6	f50a8eb4
6	Input output organization	Stallings Chapter 7	7f22d68d
7	Operating system support	Stallings Chapter 8	7f22d68d
8	Midterm		-
9	Arithmetic Logic Units	Stallings Chapter 9,10	6b88adce
10	Arithmetic Logic Units	Stallings Chapter 10,11	6b88adce
11	Instruction set	Stallings Chapter 12	0d0969eb
12	Instruction set	Stallings Chapter 13	0d0969eb
13	Central Processing Unit	Stallings Chapter 14	0138d3c9
14	Parallel computer architectures	Stallings Chapter 15,16	0138d3c9
15	Revision		-
16	Final		-

Course Notes/Textbooks	Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance 10th edition William Stallings Pearson Education 2016 ISBN 978-0-13-410161-3.
Suggested Readings/Materials	Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach Third Edition John L. Hennessy David A. Patterson David Goldberg Morgan and Kaufmann 978-1558605961. Structured Computer Organization A.S. Tanenbaum 5th ed. 2006 Prentice Hall ISBN 0131485210.

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities	Number	Weighting	LO6	LO5	LO4	LO3	LO2	LO1
Final Exam	1	40	X	X	X	X	X	X
Midterm	1	30				X	X	X
Quizzes / Studio Critiques	4	20	X	X	X			X
Project	1	10		X
Total	7	100

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Participation	-	-	-
Theoretical Course Hours	16	2	32
Laboratory / Application Hours	-	-	-
Study Hours Out of Class	20	2	40
Field Work	-	-	-
Quizzes / Studio Critiques	4	3	12
Portfolio	-	-	-
Homework / Assignments	-	-	-
Presentation / Jury	-	-	-
Project	1	16	16
Seminar / Workshop	-	-	-
Oral Exams	-	-	-
Midterms	1	20	20
Final Exam	1	30	30
		Total	150