Welcome to CSE 4302 / CSE 5302 / ECE 5402 - Computer Architecture

Course Syllabus

Instructor

• Professor Omer Khan
• Office: ITEB 447
• Email: khan@uconn.edu
• Office Hours: In person after class (for other times, email to setup)

TA

• Hanan Khan
• Email: abdul_hanan_gul.khan@uconn.edu
• Office Hours: Monday and Friday, 1pm-2pm in ITE 430

Announcements

• Exam 2 is scheduled in-class on November 13, 2025. It will cover lectures 10 through 19 (inclusive).
• Exam 1 is scheduled in-class on October 7, 2025. It will cover lectures 1 through 9 (inclusive).

Lectures

• Textbook: Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach, Fourth Edition
• Lecture 1: Fundamentals of Computer Architecture PDF
  • Reading assignment: Assemblers and Linkers, Why Your Phone is so Fast: The Sports Car vs. The Truck
• Lecture 2: Fundamental Principles PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.8, 1.9
• Lecture 3: Instruction Set Architecture PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix B
• Lecture 4: Instruction Set Implementations PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix B
• Lecture 5: Pipelining I PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A
• Lecture 6: Pipelining II PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A and Chapter 2
• Lecture 7: Advanced Pipelining PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A and Chapter 2
• Lecture 8: Complex Pipelining PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A and Chapter 2
• Lecture 9: Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) I PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A and Chapter 2
• Lecture 10: Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) II PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A and Chapter 2
• Lecture 11: Dynamic Scheduling using Scoreboard PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 12: Dynamic Scheduling using Tomasulo PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 13: Dynamic Scheduling using Tomasulo II PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 14: Dynamic Scheduling using Tomasulo III PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 15: OOO Execution and Precise Exceptions PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 16: OOO Execution and Branch Prediction PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 17: Branch Prediction I PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 18: Branch Prediction II PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 19: Branch Prediction and Caches PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C and Chapter 5
• Lecture 20: Caches PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C and Chapter 5
• Lecture 21: Caches Optimizations PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C and Chapter 5
• Lecture 22: Cache-Memory Management PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C and Chapter 5
• Lecture 23: Main Memory and Interface PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C and Chapter 5

Programming Assignments (due at start of class - no late submissions will be accepted)

• All programming assignment code materials are provided at GitHub repository: https://github.com/cag-uconn/cse4302

• Introduction to riscv-uconn PDF

• riscv-uconn ISA Encodings PDF

• PA 0: Getting Started with riscy-uconn simulator PDF, SLIDES (due via HuskyCT Sep 2, 2025, 11:59pm EST)

• PA 1: 4-stage Unpipelined RISC-V Simulator PDF (due via HuskyCT Sep 19, 2025, 11:59pm EST)
  • Supplementary material for PA1 PDF

• PA 2: Pipelined RISC-V Simulator with Interlocks and Forwarding PDF (due via HuskyCT Oct 3, 2025, 11:59pm EST)

• PA 3: Out-of-Order Pipelined RISC-V Simulator with Multi-cycle Execution PDF (due via HuskyCT Oct 27, 2025, 11:59pm EST)

• PA 4: Superscalar Pipelined RISC-V Simulator with Out-of-Order Execution PDF (due via HuskyCT Nov 17, 2025, 11:59pm EST)

• PA 5: Superscalar OOO RISC-V Simulator with Static Branch Predictor & Cache PDF (due via HuskyCT Dec 5, 2025, 11:59pm EST)

Homeworks (due as indicated below - no late submissions will be accepted)

• Homework 1: PDF, Solution PDF (due via HuskyCT on Sep 9, 2025, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 2: PDF, Solution PDF (due via HuskyCT on Sep 24, 2025, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 3: PDF, Solution PDF (due via HuskyCT on Oct 1, 2025, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 4: PDF, Solution PDF (due via HuskyCT on Oct 21, 2025, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 5: PDF, Solution PDF (due via HuskyCT on Nov 3, 2025, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 6: PDF, Solution PDF (due via HuskyCT on Nov 10, 2025, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 7: PDF (due via HuskyCT on Dec 4, 2025, 11:59pm EST)

Research Paper Review (graduate students only) PDF (Review due on Dec 2, 2025, NOON EST, Presentation and discussion in class on Dec 4, 2025)