About the course:

This course intends to provide an overall view of a computer system with sufficient details at each level of the computer system stack. 

Students at the end of the course will have an understanding of how various levels across the stack influence designs, interact with other levels.

Students will be provided basics starting from ISA (RISC-V), Pipelining, Memory hierarchy, and optimizing programs with a better understanding of underlying hardware. 

• Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective by Randal E Bryant, David R O’Hallaron, 3rd edition, Pearson.

• Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware-Software Interface, RISC-V edition by David A Patterson, John L Hennessy, Morgan Kaufmann. 

To-be-updated

• Course falls in PC2 slot.

• Theory Classes:

  • Mon: 10:00AM - 10:50AM

  • Tue: 10:00AM - 10:50AM

  • Wed: 10:00AM - 10:50AM

• Tutorial:

  • Tue 08:00AM - 08:50AM

• Venue: CS-SH

• Lab session:

  • To-be-decided

• All the course material will be shared on Google Classroom.