Computer Architecture
Code
11152
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Informática
Credits
9.0
Teacher in charge
Pedro Abílio Duarte de Medeiros
Weekly hours
5
Total hours
65
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
Computer science and IT professionals must be able to understand the various layers of software and hardware that allow for their programs written in a high-level language like C or Java to run a computer system. The central goal of this course is to provide a holistic view on how a computer is organized, the design of the software and hardware layers that form a computer system, and the interaction between these layers, with a particular focus on the computer architecture aspects of this design.
Subject matter
1. Programming in C.
2. Number representation.
3. Assembly language: instruction types, instruction format, procedures and calling conventions.
4. Compiling, linking, assembling, and loading.
5. Internal organization of processing units. Single cycle processor. Pipelining. Advanced concepts.
6. Caches and memory units. Virtual memory basics.
7. I/O.
Bibliography
Computer Systems: A Programmer''s Perspective, 2/E , Randal E. Bryant and David R. O''Hallaron, Prentice Hall, 2011