Unit COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Course
Informatics
Study-unit Code
20009205
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Alfredo Navarra
Teachers
  • Alfredo Navarra
Hours
  • 42 ore - Alfredo Navarra
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2023
Offered
2023/24
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Discipline informatiche
Academic discipline
INF/01
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents
Numbers representation: positional, sign-and-magnitude, twos' complement; Designs of adders, multipliers, and dividers; Floating points: 16 bit standard IEEE 754; Cellular automata: Game of Life, Scintillae and Computer architecture; Abstraction levels: Functional level, RTL. Micro-oprerations. Control Unit. Machine cycle. PDP8: register level, functional level, control unit, Assembly. Cache memory. Pipelining.
Reference texts
1. F. Barsi: Architettura degli elaboratori, parte seconda: struttura dei sistemi. Margiacchi-Galeno

2. C. Hamacher, Z. Vranesic, S. Zaky, Naraig Manjikian: Introduzione all'architettura dei calcolatori III edizione. McGraw-Hill
Educational objectives
Knowledge and understanding about basic properties of a computer, including assembly programming
Prerequisites
Logic elements and Boolean algebra
Teaching methods
Face-to-face
Practical training
Seminars
Learning verification modality
examination in class
Extended program
Numbers representation: positional, sign-and-magnitude, twos' complement; Designs of adders and multipliers; Floating points: 16 bit standard IEEE 754; Computer architecture abstraction levels: Functional level, RTL. Micro-oprerations. Control Unit. Machine cycle. PDP8: register level, functional level, control unit, Assembly. Cache memory. Pipelining
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