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 before/after class (email to setup appointment)

TA

• Afif Siddiqi
• Email: afif.siddiqi@uconn.edu
• Office Hours: You can signup using Sharepoint Sheet

Announcements

• Exam 1 is scheduled in-class on October 1, 2026. It will cover lectures 1 through 8.

Lectures

• Textbook: Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach, Sixth Edition
• Lecture 1: Fundamental Principles PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 1
  • Other readings: Assemblers and Linkers, Why Your Phone is so Fast: The Sports Car vs. The Truck
• Lecture 2: Instruction Set Architectures PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix A
• Lecture 3: Memory and Caches PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix B
• Lecture 4: Caches cont. PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix B
• Lecture 5: Memory Management and Caches PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 2
• Lecture 6: Pipelining PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C
• Lecture 7: Advance Pipelining PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C
• Lecture 8: Instruction Level Parallelism PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C, Chapter 3.1, 3.2
• Lecture 9: Scheduling to Exploit ILP PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C, Chapter 3.1, 3.2
• Lecture 10: Dynamic Scheduling using Scoreboard PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C
• Lecture 11: Dynamic Scheduling: Generalized Scoreboard and Tomasulo PDF
  • Reading assignment: Appendix C
• Lecture 12: Dynamic Scheduling: Register Renaming and Tomasulo PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 3
• Lecture 13: Out of Order Execution: Register Renaming and Exceptions PDF
  • Reading assignment: Chapter 3

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

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

• Homework 1: PDF, Solution PDF (due via HuskyCT on Sep 11, 2026, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 2: PDF, Solution PDF (due via HuskyCT on Sep 17, 2026, 11:59pm EST)

• PA 1: Cache Modeling and Analysis PDF (due via HuskyCT Sep 22, 2026, 11:59pm EST)
  • riscv-uconn ISA PDF

• Homework 3: PDF, Solution PDF (due via HuskyCT on Sep 28, 2026, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 4: PDF (due via HuskyCT on Oct 13, 2026, 11:59pm EST)

• Homework 5: PDF (due via HuskyCT on Oct 21, 2026, 11:59pm EST)