Course Catalog 2008-2009 International Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Course´s person responsible

Fabio Garzia, Jari Nurmi

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 1 : Monday 10 - 12, TB223 Per 1, 2 : Thursday 10 - 12, TB224 Per 2 : Monday 10 - 12, TB224

Requirements

Exam and accepted exercise works.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Objectives

To learn the architecture and basic operation principles of modern computers.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Factors of computer performance and what impacts these factors. Improving performance.	Benchmark suites and their interpretation.	Basic parallel processing techniques and their impact on performance.
2.	Principles of instruction execution, different instruction-set architectures, instruction types, addressing modes, data representation.	Floating-point number representation, RISC processor instruction coding and common addressing modes used.	Example architectures, implementation of various software structures.
3.	Hardware implementation of arithmetic operations (add, subtract, multiply), structure of arithmetic-logic units and their basic implementation principles.	Speeding up arithmetic operations.	Floating-point computation.
4.	Control implementation principles. Single-cycle, multi-cycle, and pipelined processor implementation. Principles of pipelining, pipeline hazards. Handling of interrupts.	Forwarding in pipelined processors.	Impact of pipelining on compilers, micro-programmed control.
5.	Memory hierarchy, fundamentals of cache memories. Virtual memory, paging, address translations.	Speeding up address translations, replacement algorithms for caches and virtual memory.	Memory technology basics. Segmentation.

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Book	Computer Organization and Architecture; The Hardware/software interface	Patterson, Hennessy			Morgan-Kauffman, 2nd or 3rd edition		English
Lecture slides	TKT-3200 Slides						English

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1	To learn the architecture and the basic principles of a modern computer	Lectures Excercises Practical works	Contact teaching: 0 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 0 %

Last modified	05.09.2008
Modifier	Fabio Garzia