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Advanced Computer Architecture, 6 ECTS credits.
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 48
Rec. self-study hours: 112
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Area of Education: Technology
Main field of studies: Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering
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Advancement level
(G1, G2, A): A
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Aim:
The aim of the course is to present how modern computer systems work and are built. The students should learn the advanced concepts and principle of computer architecture and organization, as well as methods developed in order to improve the performance of current microprocessors and parallel systems. The students, when finishing the course, should be able to analyze a computer to extract its basic architectural features, and understand how its components work together to accomplish the computation tasks efficiently.
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Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered)
Computer Hardware and Architecture
Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding.
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Organisation:
The course is organized as a set of lectures and laboratory exercises.
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Course contents:
Instruction set, memory management and hierarchy, input/output and buses, pipelining techniques, branch prediction, RISC architectures, VLIW architectures and specific compiling techniques, superscalar architectures, out of order execution, parallel architectures and multiprocessors.
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Course literature:
A list of recommended literature will be available in the course information.
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Examination: |
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Written examination
Laboratory work
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4 ECTS
2 ECTS
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Course language is English.
Department offering the course: IDA.
Director of Studies: Ahmed Rezine
Examiner: Zebo Peng
Course Syllabus in Swedish
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