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| Semester 1:
| 2002-03
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| Module leader:
| Prof. A. Yakovlev
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| Pre-requisites: | none
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| Co-requisites: | none
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| Credits: | 15
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| Aims
(the purpose of the module):
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This course is intended to give students a basic understanding of
the internal structure of the hardware of a computer and the low-level
software of an operating system.
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| Teaching and Learning Objectives
(skills acquired by the end of the module):
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| Syllabus
(the contents of the module; durations are approximate):
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- Basic computer organisation: processor, storage,
registers and input/output devices, storage organisation,
the fetch-execute cycle, addressing modes, elementary machine
language programming (with practical), assemblers, loaders,
operating systems functions.
(3 weeks)
- Machine architecture: basic computer structures - CPU +
memory + I/O; registers, ALU control; instruction sets -
n-address instructions; encoding operators and operands;
addressing modes; PDP-11 structure.
(3 weeks)
- Programming the M68000: address modes; data movement;
control structures; assemblers; directives; program status
word; stacks; procedures and parameters; bit manipulation;
memory-mapped I/O; interrupts; macros; assemblers and
linkers; code attributes - serially re-usable,
position-independent, re-entrant; language choice -
low-level languages. HLL; system software - monitors
and operating systems.
(3 weeks)
- Structure of Microcomputers: CPU + program store +
data store; busses; fetch-execute cycle; structure of
CPU; micro programming; bus cycles and timing; synchronous
and asynchronous busses; types of memory ROM, RAM,
EPROM; memory timing; address decoding; memory-mapped
I/O; peripheral chips; DMA; serial communication -
RS232; priority interrupts.
(3 weeks)
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| Teaching and Learning Methods:
| Number of Student Hours:
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| Lectures:
Tutorials:
Practicals:
Student presentations:
Group work:
Private study:
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48
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78
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| Total:
| 150 | hours
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| Methods and Timing of Assessment:
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- Coursework (15%):
Writing an assembly language program.
Set in Week 7, due in Week 12
| Students must pass the coursework component of
a module in order to pass the module as a whole.
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- Examination (85%):
There will be a 3 hour (previously unseen) closed-book written
examination at the end of the semester.
Instructions to candidates:
The rubric for this examination has not yet been finalised.
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| Personal Transferable Skills Development:
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normal
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| References:
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Recommended:
| A.S. Tanenbaum,
Structured Computer Organisation
(Prentice-Hall International, 1999) 4th Edition.
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Recommended:Recommended:
| V.C. Hamacher, Z.G. Vranesic and S.G. Zaky,
Computer Organisation (McGraw-Hill, 2002) 5th edition.
Alan Clements, Principles of Computer Hardware (Oxford
University Press)
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Recommended:
| A. Clements,
68000 Family Assembly Language,
(PWS, 1994)
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