Microprocessor Systems, 3rd year, optional

Instructor: Razvan Bogdan
The class meeting time is Friday at 2:00pm, room A109.
The lab and project sessions are scheduled in room B413B.

Course Listing

This course aims at offering the neccessary knowledge regarding the designing and optimization of microprocesor-based systems.
Specific objectives of the course are:

• Acquiring the overview over the microprocessor components and their behavior and their external interfaces to the system
• Understanding and explaining what is going on inside a computer
• Acquiring the capacity to analyze and design microprocessor based systems
• State a professional judgement regarding the performance of a microprocessor
• Acquiring the ability to implement and test applications for different microprocessors

Textbook

Main textbook:
Alan Clements, Computer Organization and Architecture, Cengage Learning, 2014 (Teesside University)

Secondary:
Irv Englander, The Architecture of Computer Hardware and Systems Software: An Information Technology Approach, John Wiley and Sons , 2010
David B. Kirk and Wen-mei W. Hwu, Programming Massively Parallel Processors, Morgan Kaufmann, 2012 (University of Illinois at UC)