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Course Description (for 2014)
Course Description
Tianjin International Engineering Institute
Course Name (Chinese): 微处理器系统
(English): Microprocessor Systems
Course Name: Microprocessor Systems
Course Code:
Semester: 2
Credit: 3
Programme: Electronic
Course Module: Specialized Subjects
Responsible: LU Wei
E-mail: luwei@tju.edu.cn
Department: School of Electronics Information Engineering
Time Layout (1 credit hour = 45 minutes)
Practice
Lecture
Lab-study
40
8
Project
Internship(days)
Personal Work
Course Resume
The course introduces various structures of micro-computer systems, techniques for
designing a computing system and methods for analyzing its performance, instruction set of the
processor, interface between processor and memory, I/O devices. The course provides
preliminary knowledge for developing an applicable computer or embedded system.
Pre-requirements
Digital Logic; Programming Language
Course Objectives
Students should get familiar with these points: common architecture of computer systems;
instruction set and assembly language programming; pipelining; memory hierarchy, I/O system;
multi-processor and parallelism; and how to measure the performance of a certain
microprocessor system.
Course Syllabus
Lecture:
1 .Computer Abstractions and Technology (4 credit hours)
Introduction of program and hardware; manufacturing of processors and memory chips;
performance.
2. Instructions: Language of the Computer (8 credit hours)
Operations of the computer hardware; operands of the computer hardware; signed and
unsigned numbers; representing instructions in the computer; logical operations; instructions for
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TEACHING ARCHIVES TIEI
Course Description (for 2014)
making decisions; procedure.
3. Arithmetic for Computers (6 credit hours)
Add and subtraction; multiplication, division, floating point.
4. The Processor (8 credit hours)
A simple implementation; pipelining.
5. Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Hierarchy (6 credit hours)
Caches; measuring and improving cache performance; virtual memory.
6. Storage and Other I/O Topics (4 credit hours)
Disk storage, flash Storage; connecting processor to memory and I/O devices; designing an
I/O System.
7. Multicores, Multiprocessors, and Clusters (4 credit hours)
The difficulty of creating parallel programs; shared memory multiprocessors; clusters and
other message-passing multiprocessors; SISD, MIMD, SIMD, SPMD, and Vector; Graphics
Processing Units.
Computer Lab:
Experiments for performance benchmarking. (2 credit hours)
Programming with assembly language. (6 credit hours)
Text Book & References
Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, Fourth Edition, ARM
Edition, David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy, Morgan Kaufmann, 2010.
Reference：
Structured Computer Organization, 6th Edition, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Todd Austin,
Pearson, 2012.
Capability Tasks
CT1
CT3
Achievements
Common architecture of computer systems. - Level: N
Instruction set and assembly language programming. - Level: M
Pipelining. - Level: A
Memory hierarchy and I/O system. - Level: A
Multi-processor and parallelism. - Level: N
How to measure the performance of a certain microprocessor system. - Level: M
Students: Electronic year 2
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