Course Information
SemesterCourse Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleT+P+LCreditNumber of ECTS CreditsLast Updated Date
1BBM431ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES3+0+03606.09.2024

 
Course Details
Language of Instruction English
Level of Course Unit Bachelor's Degree
Department / Program COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Type of Program Formal Education
Type of Course Unit Elective
Course Delivery Method Face To Face
Objectives of the Course To provide an overview of advanced computer architectures.
Course Content Preliminary concepts and recent technological changes on the computer architecture. Virtual memory organizations, memory architectures, cache memory, instruction set design, RISC architecture, processor micro-architecture and pipelining, superscalar architectures, VLIW machines, vector supercomputers and parallel computers.
Course Methods and Techniques Lecture
Prerequisites and co-requisities ( BBM104 ) and ( BBM102 )
Course Coordinator None
Name of Lecturers Associate Prof.Dr. Kayhan İmre
Assistants None
Work Placement(s) No

Recommended or Required Reading
Resources Stone H.S., High Performance Computer Architecture, Addison Wesley, 1987. Hwang K. and Briggs F.A., Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing, McGraw-Hill, 1985.
Course Notes Stone H.S., High Performance Computer Architecture, Addison Wesley, 1993.
Hwang K. ve Briggs F.A., Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing, McGraw-Hill, 1993.


Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Activities are given in detail in the section of "Assessment Methods and Criteria" and "Workload Calculation"

Assessment Methods and Criteria
In-Term Studies Quantity Percentage
Midterm Exam 2 % 50
Final examination 1 % 50
Total
3
% 100

 
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration Total Work Load
Course Duration 14 3 42
Hours for off-the-c.r.stud 14 6 84
Preparation for Midterm Exam 2 15 30
General Exam Preparation 1 20 20
Total Work Load   Number of ECTS Credits 5,86666666666667 176

 
Course Learning Outcomes: Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
NoLearning Outcomes
1 Students will be able to define basic concepts of computer architecture
2 Students will be able to analyse how existing processors and parallel systems work.
3 Students will be able to define the effects of computer architecture on software performance.
4 Students will be able to analyse the architecture of future generation systems.
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Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTopicsStudy MaterialsMaterials
1 Course outline
2 Cache Memories (Performance, classification of cache memories according to contents and write methods)
3 Cache Memories (Classification of cache memories according to access methods)
4 Cache Memories (Parallel processors and cache memory coherency)
5 Virtual memory and it sinteraction with other architectural components
6 Midterm exam
7 Pipeline, pipeline performance, pipeline types, pipeline related problems and solutions
8 Conditional branches, out-of-order instruction execution, related problems and their solutions
9 Vector processing and vector computers
10 Parallel computer architectures
11 Midterm exam
12 Review of a parallel computer (The fastest computer of the year)
13 Review of a multicore processor
14 GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) its architecture and utilisation in parallel processing
15 Final exam preparation
16 Final exam

 
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 P11 P12
All 5 5 5 4 2 1 2 3 1 1 1
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
C8

  Contribution: 1: Very Slight 2:Slight 3:Moderate 4:Significant 5:Very Significant

  
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