Processor System Design: CPU interfaces, clock, control, data & address bus; System firmware.
The CPU Architecture: including ISA, compiler relationship, control, pipelining, hazards, CISC/RISC/VLIW and issues of ILP.
Memory Systems: cache, virtual memory systems and the MMU, access methods, reliability, error detection/correction.
Performance Enhancements: superscalar; branching issues, multithreading, scalability, co-processors and enhancement units.
Interfacing and Communications: I/O fundamentals, interrupts and interfacing, buses, protocols and arbitration.
Computer Arithmetic: range, precision, real numbers, floating point and conversion, multi-precision arithmetic
Multiprocessing: multiprocessing architectures and interconnections, shared memory and coherence, memory solutions
Future directions: low power computing; testing, JTAG, system-on-chip and multi-core implementations, embedded systems issues, comparison of computational on CPU, DSP, FPGA and GPU.
| AUs | 3.0 AUs |
| Grade Type | |
| Prerequisite | SC1006 |
| Exam | 2 December 2026, 5.00 pm - 7.00 pm |
The Exam information shown may be subject to changes. Students are to check the finalised exam timetable with exam seat information, which will be available at the 'Examination Seating Arrangement' webpage, 2 weeks before start of examination.
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SC1006Computer Organisation & ArchitectureAdvanced Computer Architecture
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| 1430 | COMMON LEC (SCL4) 1430-1520 Mon LT24 | 10508 LAB (TEL1) 1430-1620 Thu HWLAB1 Odd Weeks | 10511 LAB (TEL4) 1430-1620 Thu HWLAB1 Even Weeks | |||
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| 1630 | 10511 TUT (TEL4) 1630-1720 Wed LHN-TR+63 Wk2-13 | COMMON LEC (SCL4) 1630-1720 Fri LT25 | ||||
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| 1730 | 10509 TUT (TEL2) 1730-1820 Mon LHN-TR+63 Wk2-13 | |||||
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| 1930 | 14530 TUT (CSPT3) 1930-2020 Wed TR+36 Wk2-13 | |||||
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