Course Catalog 2009-2010 International Basic Pori International Postgraduate Open University |Degrees|     |Study blocks|     |Courses|

Person responsible

Fabio Garzia

Implementations

	Lecture times and places	Target group recommended to
Implementation 1	Per 3 : Thursday 10 - 12, TB224 Per 4, 5 : Thursday 10 - 12, TB223 Per 5 : Thursday 10 - 12, tb223 Friday 12 - 14, TB223

Requirements

Accepted exercise projects, intermediate test and final exam.

Learning outcomes

To give a good overview of advanced computer architecture.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Arithmetic, control and memory subsystem implementation principles. Pipelining, memory hierarchy, cache memories.	Floating-point arithmetic, forwarding in pipelines, addressing modes, virtual memory, interrupt handling.	Media processors and multimedia support in instruction sets.
2.	Dynamic use of parallelism. Tomasulo algorithm, branch prediction, conditional execution. Instruction-level parallelism and its limitations.	Superscalar processors, speculative execution. Utilization of parallelism in software.
3.	VLIW and EPIC architectures and their compiler support. Static and compiler-assisted parallelism.	Parallelism in embedded systems.
4.	Enhancing cache memory performance. Parallel memory architectures.	Memory hierarchy design.
5.	Multiprocessor architectures and thread-level parallelism. Communication and synchronization between processors and processes. Interconnections and clustering.	Performance analysis of I/O systems. Multiprocessor systems cache coherence.

Evaluation criteria for the course

Assessment scale:

Numerical evaluation scale (1-5) will be used on the course

Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

Additional information

The course is intended for international students, primarily in the Information Technology degree programme. The course is mutually exclusive with TKT-3200 Tietokonetekniikka I (TKT-3206 Computer Architecture I) and TKT-3406 Computer Architecture II because of overlapping contents.

More precise information per implementation

	Description	Methods of instruction	Implementation
Implementation 1		Lectures Excercises Practical works	Contact teaching: 50 % Distance learning: 0 % Self-directed learning: 50 %

Last modified	12.03.2009
Modifier	Olli Vainio