Course Catalog 2009-2010 Postgraduate Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Jari Nurmi

Implementations

No implementations

Requirements

Exam and accepted exercise works.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

To deepen the student's knowledge and skills in processor operating principles and implementation. To learn processor design methodology in practice.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Processor terminology brush-up.	Deeper understanding of phenomena behind the various terms related to processors. Economic impact of processor hardware implementations.
2.	Processor design principles and design steps. Design of arithmetic, control and memory subsystems.	Application-specific processor specification and design.	Available design tools and other utilities for processor design.
3.	Instruction set design based on requirements. Instruction coding and its impact on implementation area, power consumption and performance.	Variable-length instructions, use of operation modes in processors.	Instruction memory compression.
4.	Requirements for embedded system processors. Processor cores as design blocks. DSP processor specifics.	Basics of parallel architecture from the implementation point of view.	Co-processors, hardware accelerators.
5.	Processor benchmarks and interpretation of their results.	Critical assessment of different benchmarks.

Study material

Type	Name	Author	ISBN	URL	Edition, availability, ...	Examination material	Language
Lecture slides							English

Prerequisites

Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

Last modified	05.05.2009
Modifier	Olli Vainio