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02340 Computer Architecture
Danish title: Datamat arkitektur
Language:  Danish    ECTS-creditpoints:  10, External examination.   
Type:  open university
Class schedule:   F1
Exam schedule:   No exam
Recommended semester:  4th semester
Evaluation:  Approval of coursework/reports
Examination:  13-scale
Prerequisites:  02310, 02320, 02330
Aim:  - Analyzing a problem with the purpose of digital realization
- Selection of tool
- To obtain knowledge of programmable logic from PAL's to CPLD's and FPGA's
- To put a student in a position to construct a computer or some parts from a computer by means of own digital realization
- To put a student in a position to develope testsoftware for testing own hardware constructions.
Contents:  - Realization possibilities at larger digital designs. Design-description tools.
- Logic families, Clock strategies.
- Possibilities for test. Test built into the design.
- Planning of a larger design.
- Construction of a computer by means of a known microprocessor.
- Memory-systems, I / O - parts, Interrupt and DMA.
- Timer circuits and other dedicated I / O-circuits. File- and Memory- control systems. Device drivers.
- Testing and fault-finding computer-systems
Contact:  Bent Frøhlke Nielsen, building 451, (+45) 4525 5276, bn@imm.dtu.dk
Department: 002 Informatics and Mathematical Modelling
Course URL:  http://www.imm.dtu.dk/courses/02340
Updated:  04-07-2001