Architecture and assembler

  • ECTS

    4 credits

  • Component

    Faculty of Science

Description

Know how to choose and implement a conventional combinatorial and/or sequential digital circuit. Understand the functioning of a computer architecture. Principles of computer architectures (instruction search, instruction sequencing, memory access, interrupts).

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Objectives

Introduction: Technological evolution, Von Neumann's principle

Instructions: Format, Coding, Memory Access

Processing Unit: Building blocks (Combinatorial elements, Sequential elements), How an architecture works, Possible improvements

Instruction decoding: Principle of instruction decoding, Microprogramming

Interrupt systems : Principle and consequences, Vectorization

Input/Output systems : Principle, Interface Circuits

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