OVERVIEW
The progress of computer technologies from 1960 to today has been oustanding. In 1960, a computer was as big as an entire room. Today, a computer is as small as a tablet or a smartphone. In this course, students will study the principles of computer architecture, which played a crucial role in such evolution of computer system.
AIMS AND CONTENT
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The course is a study of the evolution of computer architecture and the factors influencing the design of hardware and software elements of computer systems. The course covers the fundamentals of classical and modern processor design: performance and cost issues, instruction sets, pipelining, memory organization.
SYLLABUS/CONTENT
Topics will include: introduction to computer architecture design; analysis of the major design issues: computational performance, power consumption, cost, size; computer arithmetic; instruction set design; processor: datapath and control unit; pipeline and parallelism; memory organization.
TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD
Exam Board
PAOLO GASTALDO (President)
GIULIANO DONZELLINI
RODOLFO ZUNINO
EXAMS
Exam schedule
| Date | Time | Location | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/01/2018 | 10:30 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
| 06/02/2018 | 10:30 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
| 12/06/2018 | 10:30 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
| 10/07/2018 | 10:30 | GENOVA | Scritto | |
| 11/09/2018 | 10:30 | GENOVA | Scritto |