Computer Architecture II

Code: INF13189L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Informatics

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

Students should: learn the concepts relating to computational systems organisation and implementation, including performance enhancing features such as pipelining and memory hierarchies; understand their effect on system performance; learn how to perform system performance analysis and how to make the best use of computational systems.

Organisation of computer systems. Performance analysis. Microprocessor implementation. Control and datapath: single-cycle datapath, pipelining; instruction-level parallelism; out-of-order execution. Multicore processors and multiprocessors. Memory hierarchies. Cache memory theory and operation: cache principles; organisation; consistency and coherence; performance analysis. Virtual memory: principles; implementation; performance analysis.

Teaching Methods

Subjects, accompanied by real-life data, are introduced and discussed in lectures, and are further developed in exercise classes. Student assessment is carried out by means of midterm written tests or one final exam.