TDDI03 · 4 credits · Basic level (G2F) · Datateknik, Elektroteknik
Advanced Computer Architecture
Active · next start HT 2026
58%
passed the latest ordinary exam
TEN1 · 17 Jan 2026 · 72 students
62%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
TEN1 · 255 students
88%
Harder than 88% of courses at basic level
Compared with 874 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 122 students.
Part of 2 programmes
Exam
TEN1 Written exam
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
62% passed · 255 students
- 58%72
- 46%50
- 62%47
- 86%35
- 67%51
Re-exams
72% passed · 144 students
- 78%9
- 67%39
- 93%15
- 70%20
- 71%7
- 76%17
- 71%7
- 60%10
- 60%5
- 73%15
- Pass the re-exam: 72% (144 students), compared with 62% (255 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 32% (399 students)
About the course
Aim
The aim of the course is to address the problematic of modern computers, how they work and are built. Techniques are discussed which have been developed in order to improve the performance of modern microprocessors and parallel computers. After completing the course, the students should be able to:
Identify the main issues in modern computer systems, how they are solved and what their implications are on performance, power consumption, and cost.
Evaluate alternative computer architectures and take the appropriate decisions regarding the choice of a particular architecture in a certain context.
Appreciate the consequences of certain architectural decisions on the actual performance or power consumption of the processor.
Understand specific tradeoffs between complexity/cost/performance/power-consumption in modern computer systems.
Content
Historical perspective, CPU, memory hierarchy, cache memory, virtual memory,instruction pipelining, Reduced Instruction Set (RISC) processors, Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors, study of parallelism for performance enhancement, superscalar and parallel computer systems.
- Examiner
- Petru Eles
- Scheduled hours
- 28 h
- Main field of study
- Datateknik, Elektroteknik