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Digital Computers

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 460-6007/01
Abbreviation CP
Course title Digital Computers
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Computer Science
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Lačezar Ličev, CSc., prof.h.c.

Subject syllabus

Lectures
Production technology of digital circuits. Computer architecture according to von Neumann, Harvard, the essential characteristics and operating principles.
Machine instructions, addressing, address space. Computer performance measurements.
Principles of communication with peripherals, I / gates, program management, interrupts, addressing priorities.
Controllers, adapters, and the description of the DMA channel (SCSI), differences in activity.
CISC and RISC processors, basic features and incentives for the creation, concatenation, prediction jumps, hazards, basic RISC representatives.
Intel, developmental series, the basic features and internal architecture.
Processors from other companies, their properties and applications.
Monolithic computer requirements for the construction, properties and uses typical integrated peripherals.
Microcontroller Microchip and Atmel. Developmental series, the architecture and features programming.
Organisation of memory in computers, memory hierarchy. Internal memory, static, dynamic, virtual memory organization.
External memory - magnetic, optical, magneto-optical. IDE PATA / SATA.
Bus division of the address signals, data and control. Bus cycle. Basic features of the PCI, AGP and PCI Express technology. USB.
Video adapter and display units. The principle activities of CRT, LCD, plasma and OLED display. Principle of image, the relationship of the frequency of the DAC converter and monitor. Architecture of modern graphics cards, brief description of VGA and DVI output.
Computer architecture and parallel architectures - SISD, SIMD, MISD, MIMD.
Modern trends in computer architecture: High Performance Computing, signal processors, custom circuits using FPGAs

Literature

Valasek monolithic microprocessors and microcomputers, SNTL, Praha 1989.
Ličev L.: Computer Architecture I, skriptum FEI VŠB TUO, 1999.
Ličev L.: Computer Architecture II, textbook FEI VŠB TUO, 1999.
Ličev L., D. Morkes: Processors - Architecture, features, use, Computer press Praha, 1999.
Ličev L.: Computer Architecture, 2013, Electronic proceedings of lectures on the subject of computer architectures.
Hrbáček J.: PIC Microcontrollers 16CXX, BEN - Technical Literature, 1998, Prague.

Advised literature

Valasek monolithic microprocessors and microcomputers, SNTL, Praha 1989.
Ličev L.: Computer Architecture I, skriptum FEI VŠB TUO, 1999.
Ličev L.: Computer Architecture II, textbook FEI VŠB TUO, 1999.
Ličev L., D. Morkes: Processors - Architecture, features, use, Computer press Praha, 1999.
Ličev L.: Computer Architecture, 2013, Electronic proceedings of lectures on the subject of computer architectures.
Hrbáček J.: PIC Microcontrollers 16CXX, BEN - Technical Literature, 1998, Prague.