Course Name: Advanced Computer Architecture

Course abstract

Applications and handheld devices play a major role in ensuring comfort in our day- today life. These applications run on handheld electronic gadgets with high-end microprocessor support. Modern CPU designers handle challenges imposed by these applications with cost effective architectural enhancements. This course provides a deeper insight into the design of high-end microprocessors that will support the future applications.


Course Instructor

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Prof. John Jose

Prof. John Jose is an Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, since 2015. He completed his Ph.D degree from Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras in the field of computer architecture. He had guided over 8 M.Tech thesis and is currently supervising 7 Ph.D thesis and 2 M.Tech thesis. His area of interests are on-chip interconnection networks and cache management techniques for large multicore systems. He has more than 30 publications in top computer architecture conferences and journals. He has been a resource person to computer architecture related symposia, workshops and short-term courses in many technical institutes all over India. He is the recipient of ACM-SIGDA, IEEE-CEDA, IARCS and DRDO research grants for research presentations held in various international venues. He has already offered a NPTEL online certification course in the area of computer architecture, which will be retelecasting in the upcoming fall. He is the principal investigator of SERB-ECRA and MHRD-SPARC projects. He has an active research collaboration with the University of Catania, Italy, University of Essex, UK, University of Florida, USA, Federal University, Naples, Italy.
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 Course Duration : Feb-Apr 2021

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 Syllabus

 Enrollment : 18-Nov-2020 to 15-Feb-2021

 Exam registration : 15-Jan-2021 to 12-Mar-2021

 Exam Date : 25-Apr-2021

Enrolled

6705

Registered

103

Certificate Eligible

23

Certified Category Count

Gold

1

Silver

4

Elite

4

Successfully completed

14

Participation

28

Success

Elite

Silver

Gold





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AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75 AND FINAL SCORE >=40
BASED ON THE FINAL SCORE, Certificate criteria will be as below:
>=90 - Elite + Gold
75-89 -Elite + Silver
>=60 - Elite
40-59 - Successfully Completed

Final Score Calculation Logic

  • Assignment Score = Average of best 6 out of 8 assignments.
  • Final Score(Score on Certificate)= 75% of Exam Score + 25% of Assignment Score
Advanced Computer Architecture - Toppers list

SYAM SANKAR 91%

N.S.S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

NAFSIYA C A 84%

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Enrollment Statistics

Total Enrollment: 6705

Registration Statistics

Total Registration : 103

Assignment Statistics




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Final score

Score Distribution Graph - Legend

Assignment Score: Distribution of average scores garnered by students per assignment.
Exam Score : Distribution of the final exam score of students.
Final Score : Distribution of the combined score of assignments and final exam, based on the score logic.