Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Architectures of microcomputer systems (17.EM305)

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Measurement-Information Technologies and Control Engineering (Year: 3, Semester: Summer)
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Measurement-Information Technologies and Control Engineering (Year: 4, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Electronics
ECTS	6

This course aims to get students familiar with various contemporary micro-computer system architectures.

After successful completion of this course, student will know internal structure and implementation details of basic blocks of contemporary micro-computer systems. Besides, students will be able to fully design and implement a simple microprocessor core on programmable logic platform, using some of the standard hardware description languages.

Processor design methodology. Processor specification. Instruction set variations. RISC/CISC dichotomy. Processor building blocks (adders, simple ALUs, multipliers, dividers, floating point). Building a datapath. Control unit design and implementation. An overview of pipelining. Pipelined datapath and control. Hazards and Exceptions. Real world example: the Arm Cortex-a53 and Intel core i7 pipelines. Using a hardware design language to describe, model and implement a simple CPU. Memory technologies. The basics of caches. Measuring and improving cache performance. Dependable memory hierarchy. Virtual machines. Virtual memory. Using a finite-state machine to control a simple cache. Real world example: the Arm Cortex-a53 and Intel core i7 memory hierarchies. Real world example: the rest of the Armv8 system and special instructions. MIPS examples. RISCV examples.

Lectures, labs and consultations.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
B. Parhami	Computer Architecture: From Microprocessors to Supercomputers	2005	Oxford University Press	English
David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy	Computer Organization and Design The Hardware Software Interface ARM Edition	2017	Morgan Kaufmann	English