Computer Units

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Department of Digital Design

Synopsis:

Students get knowledge of the internal structure and organisation of computer or processor components and their interfacing with the environment, the organisation of main memory and other internal memories (addressable, LIFO, FIFO, and CAM)and with design methodology for the control unit and controllers, basic principles of communication with peripheral devices and buses.

Requirements:

Basic knowledge of the structure and architecture of a digital computer, design principles for combinational and sequential circuits, the concept of computer memory.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Organization and structure of von Neumann computers. Binary adders, subtractors and shifters.

2. Wired control unit. Arithmetic and logic unit of simple processor.

3. Control unit and controllers; microprogrammed control unit. Binary multiplication and division and their implementation.

4. Floating point representation. Basic principles of error detection and correction.

5. Linear and cyclic codes. Main memory - possible organizations and interfaces.

6. Other internal memories, their organization and use - addressable memories, LIFO, FIFO, CAM. I/O units and their control - DMA, channels and I/O processors.

7. Buses - types, modes, arbitration.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Number systems, conversions and operations. Representations of negative numbers. Simple processor - instructions, machine code, data part. Simple processor - instruction cycle, interface. Simple processor - microprogramming. Simple processor - demonstration of a microprogram. Wired controller design.

2. Multipliers and dividers. Floating point representation. Design of a processor component on FPGA. Demonstration of the designed processor component. Control codes.

Study Objective:

This teaches future computer engineers the way how to design their own processors for a specific purpose, what units must be contained in a processor or a computer, and how these units communicate. Everything is demonstrated in hands-on experiments with FPGA and simulators.

Study materials:

1. Hennesy, J. L., Patterson, D. A. ''Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Third Edition''. Morgan Kaufmann, 2002. ISBN 1558605967.

2. Tanenbaum, A. S. ''Structured Computer Organization (5th Edition)''. Prentice Hall, 2005. ISBN 0131485210.

3. Stallings, W. ''Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance (7th Edition)''. Prentice Hall, 2005. ISBN 0131856448.

4. Hamacher, C., Vranesic, Z., Zaky, S. ''Computer Organization''. McGraw-Hill, 2001. ISBN 0072320869.

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Computer engineering (Presented in Czech) (compulsory course of the specialization)
• Informatics - Plan for Period Before Assignement of Specialization (Presented in Czech) (VO)