Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dalhousie University

ECED 3403: Computer Architecture

Summer 2019

Last updated: 22 April 2019


Instructor

Dr. Larry Hughes
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dalhousie University

Room C-369
Telephone: 902.240.0245
E-mail: larry.hughes [at] dal.ca
URL: http://lh.ece.dal.ca

Prerequisites

Students taking ECED 3403 are expected to have a good understanding and working knowledge of algorithms and software design (ECED 3400, Systems Analysis), programming in C or C++ (ENGM 3282, Data Structures and Numerical Methods), and the fundamentals of Instruction Set Architectures (ECED 3204, Microprocessors).

Course Outline

A copy of the course outline will be available from this site after the first class on 7 May 2019.

Visual Studio

It is highly recommended that you use Visual Studio Community 2019 for your software work in the course. It has an IDE, compiler, linker, and debugger, as well as extensive libraries. Copies can be obtained from Visual Studio Downloads. Note that the download is a lengthy process.

The TAs will be giving an introduction to Visual Studio.

DEV C++ is not recommended.

Classrooms and lab

Course information

Contact Dr. Hughes for more information about this course.


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