Course Catalog 2012-2013
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Course Catalog 2012-2013

TKT-3526 Processor Design, 5 cr

Additional information

Suitable for postgraduate studies

Person responsible

Tapani Ahonen

Lessons

Study type P1 P2 P3 P4 Summer Implementations Lecture times and places
Lectures
Assignment


 


 
 4 h/per
 10 h/week
+4 h/per
+10 h/week


 
TKT-3526 2012-01 Thursday 12 - 14, TB222
Thursday 12 - 14, TB224

Requirements

Exam and accepted exercise works.

Principles and baselines related to teaching and learning

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Learning outcomes

The student acquires deepened knowledge and skills in processor operating principles and implementation. He learns how to design a processor based on given requirements. He can describe processor benchmarks and assess their results.

Content

Content Core content Complementary knowledge Specialist knowledge
1. Processor terminology brush-up.  Deeper understanding of phenomena behind the various terms related to processors. Economic impact of processor hardware implementations.    
2. Processor design principles and design steps. Design of arithmetic, control and memory subsystems.  Application-specific processor specification and design.  Available design tools and other utilities for processor design. 
3. Instruction set design based on requirements. Instruction coding and its impact on implementation area, power consumption and performance.  Variable-length instructions, use of operation modes in processors.  Instruction memory compression.  
4. Requirements for embedded system processors. Processor cores as design blocks. DSP processor specifics.   Basics of parallel architecture from the implementation point of view.  Co-processors, hardware accelerators. 
5. Processor benchmarks and interpretation of their results.  Critical assessment of different benchmarks.   

Study material

Type Name Author ISBN URL Edition, availability, ... Examination material Language
Book   Processor Design: System-On-Chip Computing for ASICs and FPGAs   Nurmi, Jari (Ed.)   978-1-4020-5529-4          English  
Lecture slides                English  

Additional information about prerequisites
Microprocessor / Computer Architecture basics needed as prerequisite.

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Correspondence of content

There is no equivalence with any other courses

More precise information per implementation

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Last modified03.09.2012