GENERAL INFORMATION:

Instructors: Papadopoulos Lazaros
Semester: 8th
CREDITS:

ECTS Units: 3
Teaching Units: 4 
Theory Hours: 2
Exercises Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 2
COURSE PAGE: https://eclass.duth.gr/courses/423700/

Course Description

Structure of Computer Systems and Subunits Operation, Computer Memory Technology, Memory Hierarchy, Principle of Locality, Performance of Memory Hierarchy, Cache Memory, Information Organization and Management, Memory Addressing, Information Blocks Fetch Policy, Computer Architectures Taxonomy, Types of Buses, Synchronous and Asynchronous Buses, Bus speed, Bus Usage and Arbitration, Operating System and Control Methods of Input/Output Procedure, Addressing of Input/Output Units, CPU and Input/Output Procedure, Control Unit Operation, Control Unit Implementation, Micro-operations, CPU Control, Advanced Computer Architectures, Pipeline Processing, Vector Processing, Multiple Processor Systems, Multiprocessing, Systolic Grids, Distributed and Grid Computing.