Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Computer Architecture (17.E217)

Native organizations units: Sub-department for Applied Computer Science and Informatics

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Computing and Control Engineering (Godina: 1, Summer)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Information Engineering (Godina: 1, Summer)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Power Software Engineering (Godina: 1, Summer)

General information:

Category	Theoretical-methodological
Scientific or art field	Applied Computer Science and Informatics
Interdisciplinary	No
ECTS	9

Educational goal:

Students learn about principles of computer operation, architecture of its commands, organization and implementation of computer. They acquire beginner’s level knowledge of assembler programming.

Educational outcome:

Beginner’s level knowledge of computer architecture and of assembler programming.

Course content:

Notion of computer architecture. Computer model. Machine data representation. Architecture of instructions, assembler languages and assembler programming (subrprogram, macro, stack). Principles of computer organization (memory, processor, coding and formats of machine instructions, processor organization, input-output devices, bus, interrupts). System programs (editor, assembler, macro pre-processor, linker, louder, debugger, operating system), Evolution of computer architecture (CISC, RISC, scalar and vector processors; memory hierarchy: main, peripheral, associative, cache and virtual memory, input-output devices, bus, multiprocessors and multicomputers, parallelism at the level of instruction at the level of instruction rows.

Teaching methods:

Lectures, computer practice. Consultations. The examination prerequisites consists of four tests and one complex exercise. The final examination test the theoretical part of the course material. The number of points for obtaining a signature is 30.