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CS3185 - Computer Architecture

Offering Academic Unit
Department of Computer Science
Credit Units
3
Course Duration
One Semester
Pre-requisite(s)
Course Offering Term*:
Not offering in current academic year

* The offering term is subject to change without prior notice
 
Course Aims

To study fundamentals on computer system architectures. On completion of the course, students should be able to:
- understand the design and processor functional units, register set, instruction encoding, assembler programming with case study on a processor design;
-  identify some critical issues to achieve performance in processor design and multiprocessing systems;
-  understand the basic operations of cache memory and memory system, bus and I/O interface and operations, interrupt handling and design of I/O devices.



Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information)
Continuous Assessment: 30%
Examination: 70%
Examination Duration: 2 hours
For a student to pass the course, at least 30% of the maximum mark for the examination must be obtained.
 
Detailed Course Information
CS3185.pdf

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Department of Computer Science