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Code:	93017
ECTS:	5.0
Lecturers in charge:	prof. dr. sc. Slobodan Ribarić - Lectures
Lecturers:	Sebastijan Horvat, mag. inf. et math. - Exercises dr. sc. Vinko Petričević - Exercises
English level: 1,0,0	All teaching activities will be held in Croatian. However, foreign students in mixed groups will have the opportunity to attend additional office hours with the lecturer and teaching assistants in English to help master the course materials. Additionally, the lecturer will refer foreign students to the corresponding literature in English, as well as give them the possibility of taking the associated exams in English.

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Lectures 30

Exercises 30

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

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COURSE AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Getting introduced to computer architecture and organization. Getting introduced to assembly programming.

COURSE DESCRIPTION AND SYLLABUS:
Definition of the Computer Architecture. Computer Architecture Classification. Turing Machine. Von Neumann Computer Model. Simplified Models of CISC and RISC Processors. ISA Architecture. Control Unit: Hardware and Microprogramming Implementation. Arithmetic-Logic Unit. Data Path. Memory Unit. Hierarchical Organization of Memory System. Cache Memory. Virtual memory. Input/Output Subsystem. Programmed I/O. Interrupt. DMA. Exceptions. Speed-up techniques. Pipelining. Fine- and Coarse-Parallelism. Features of CISC and RISC. Examples of Advanced RISC and CISC Processors.
Exercises are organized as oral lectures as well as laboratory training. The students have to become familiar with assembly programming techniques by using simulators for 16- and 32-bit processors/computers.

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Računarstvo - Mandatory studij - Mathematics Education

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Računarstvo - Mandatory studij - Mathematics Education

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