Architecture of Computer Systems
Semestr: Winter
Range: 14+6s
Completion:
Credits: 5
Programme type: Undefined
Study form: Parttime
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Summary:
The course builds on the knowledge of individual computer components gained during the preceding courses and presents the computer system as a whole. Its starts with the usual types of architecture of single-processor computers, concentrating on the main features of system architecture like memory hierarchy, use of pipelining and processor types. The second part of the course is devoted to parallel systems, their basic properties, taxonomy and application areas, including the characteristics of the most important representatives.
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Course syllabus:
1. Computer performance evaluation
2. Architecture of single-processor systems, interconnection structures, examples
3. Hierarchy of memory systems, types of used memories and their role in the system
4. Pipelined processing, its use at the level of system, program and individual operations
5. CISC processors, their development, properties and structure of typical representatives
6. RISC processors, their development, properties and structure of typical representatives
7. Personal computers, workstations, servers
8. Parallel systems, motivation, principles, taxonomy, Amdahl's law
9. Interconnection networks, structure, control and function in parallel systems
10. MIMD systems, types of architecture (NUMA, COMA), structure, application areas
11. Massive parallel systems, their construction, workstation farms
12. SIMD systems with local memory, with shared memory, associative processors
13. Non-traditional architectures: dataflow, systolic systems, neural networks
14. Perspectives of further development of computer systems
Seminar syllabus:
1. Computer performance evaluation. Semestral project assignment
2. Properties of instruction sets. Specification of topics
3. Presentation of semestral projects
4. Presentation of semestral projects
5. Presentation of semestral projects
6. Presentation of semestral projects
7. Presentation of semestral projects
8. Test 1. Cache memory - seminar
9. Instruction pipeline
10. Study of DLX computer
11. Simulation of DLX in lab
12. Simulation of DLX in lab
13. Test 2. Reserve
14. Assessment
Literature:
1. Hlavicka, J.: Computer Architecture. Prague, CTU Publishing House 1999, 206 pp.
2. Hennessy, J.L. - Patterson, P.A.: Computer Architecture: a Quantitative Approach. Second Edition, San Francisco, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1996
3. Hwang, K.: Advanced Computer Architecture. McGraw-Hill, 1993, 771 pp.