Computer Architecture/Assembler (CSC 243)
Term: 2021-2022 Academic Year Spring
Office Hours:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 13:00-16:00
Tuesday, Thursday: 14:30-16:00
Tue-Thu, 11:00 AM - 12:20 PM (1/10/2022 - 5/6/2022) Location: MAIN PLAST 110
Prerequisite: CSC 133. In this project-oriented course, we will build a modern computer system, from the ground up. Topics mayinclude,but not limited to, Digital Logic and Digital System (combinational and sequential circuit, FPGA, Verilog/VHDL, physical constraint, ALU design, and others); Assembly Level Machine Organization (instruction set design, CPU design, processor microarchitecture and pipelining, etc.); Memory System Organization and Architecture (the concept of virtual machine, compiler, device memory map and others); Interfacing and Communication (I/O fundamentals, interrupt structures, buses, etc.); and Multiprocessing and Alternative Architectures (Power law, SIMD, MIMD, interconnection networks, and others). Spring