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On completing this module, students should be able to:
- describe the evolution of the modern computer system;
- assess the performance of a given computer system;
- understand the design of an instruction set (RISC-V) with the consideration of possible hardware organisations and high-level programming languages;
- understand the design of a processor (binary number representation, datapath, control, pipelining, parallelism, branch prediction, etc.);
- understand the design of a memory system (cache, memory, external memory, RAID, etc.)
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 30 |
Tutorial | 14 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 76 |
Total | 120 |
Not applicable to this module.
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Summer | Yes - 2 Hour |
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
Not yet recorded.
Name | Role |
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Dr Seán Russell | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Jiaying Guo | Tutor |