What the course covers
11 lectures, 1 revision sessions, 10 hours
- Introduction to computer architecture and performance: CPI and execution time
- MIPS assembly: registers, arithmetic and logical instructions
- MIPS branches, memory access and procedure calls
- Assemblers and linkers
- Boolean algebra and digital logic: gates, combinational and sequential circuits
- Computer arithmetic: addition, multiplication and IEEE 754 floating point
- Processor design: datapath and control unit
- Pipelining and hazards
- Memory hierarchy and cache, storage and I/O
What you will be able to do
- Translate C fragments into MIPS assembly and back, and trace execution through registers and memory.
- Compute processor performance from CPI, instruction count and clock rate, and compare two designs.
- Simplify Boolean expressions, design simple logic circuits and represent numbers in IEEE 754.
- Trace an instruction through the single-cycle datapath and identify pipeline hazards and their fixes.
Free lectures from this course
Complete lectures from inside the courses, with no sign-up and no limits, so you know the style and depth before paying a single riyal.
Recorded sessions
12 sessions, 10 hoursIn teaching order. All of them open to you on enrollment until the end of the semester.
- Chapter 170 min
- Chapter 2, part 153 min
- Chapter 2, part 234 min
- Chapter 2, part 364 min
- Full MIPS exerciseRevision15 min
- Assemblers and Linkers34 min
- Boolean Algebra and Digital Logic76 min
- Arithmetic for Computers66 min
- Processor Design67 min
- Processor Design, part 234 min
- Chapter 757 min
- Chapter 831 min
Prerequisites
- Programming basics
- Digital logic fundamentals
About this course
Twelve lectures covering the computer architecture syllabus: MIPS assembly with a full worked exercise, assemblers and linkers, Boolean algebra and digital logic, computer arithmetic, and processor design.
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