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Previous course: C4337
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No credit points with: C4337
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Prerequisite: 49116
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Desirable: 49275
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Recommended semester: 4th -7th semester
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Scope and form: Lectures and homework problems: 2 modules per week. Design labs: 1 afternoon per week.
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Examination: Approval of compulsory activities is a prerequisite for taking part in the examination. Written exam (13-scale)
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Remarks: Participants may implement and test their design in course 49281 offered in the subsequent 3-week period.
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URL: http://www.it.dtu.dk/c49280
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Department: Department of Information Technology
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Aim: To provide the participants with in depth knowledge on basic computer organization and practical design of digital circuits and systems using the hardware description language VHDL.
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Contents: Lectures - Introduction to computer organization and instruction sets. Number representation and arithmetic for integer and floating-point numbers. Organization of the processor in a modern RISC-computer (control unit, data path, pipelining). Interaction between processor organization and instruction set. Buses and I/O units. Memory hierarchies, cache memories and memory management. Introduction to the hardware description language VHDL.
Labs. - In parallel with the lectures participants design and simulate a simple processor using VHDL and related CAD-tools. The purpose of this is twofold: to elaborate on the material covered in the lectures, and to introduce the use of VHDL and related CAD tools for the design of digital circuits and systems.
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