TDTS08 · 6 credits · Advanced level (A1N) · Datateknik, Elektroteknik
Advanced Computer Architecture
Active · next start HT 2026
82%
passed the latest ordinary exam
TEN1 · 27 Oct 2025 · 28 students
86%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
TEN1 · 106 students
50%
Harder than 50% of courses at advanced level
Compared with 285 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 56 students.
Exam
TEN1 Written examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
86% passed · 106 students
- 82%28
- 89%28
- 86%21
- 80%15
- 93%14
Re-exams
No sittings with at least 5 students.
- Get 4 or 5: 57% (106 students)
Show small sittings (8)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
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- 100%3
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- 67%3
- 100%2
- 100%1
- 0%1
Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
LAB1 Laboratory work
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 88 students
- 100%30
- 100%28
- 100%16
- 100%14
Later rounds
100% passed · 13 students
- 100%13
- Pass a later round: 100% (13 students), compared with 100% (88 students) on the ordinary exam
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Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
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Who takes the course?
- Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
- Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
- Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
- Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering
- Master of Science in Information Technology
- Master of Science in Information Technology
- Master of Science in Computer Science and Software Engineering
- Master of Science in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering
- Master of Science in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering
- Master of Science in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering
- Master's Programme in Computer Science
- Master's Programme in Computer Science
- Master's Programme in Cybersecurity
- Master's Programme in Electronics Engineering
About the course
Aim
After the course, students should be able to
* understand how modern computer systems work internally
* describe advanced concepts and principles of computer architecture and organization
* describe methods to improve the performance of current microprocessors and parallel systems
* analyze a computer to extract its basic architectural features
* describe how computer components can be used to efficiently accomplish computation tasks
Content
Instruction set, memory management and hierarchy, input/output and buses, pipelining techniques, branch prediction, RISC architectures, VLIW architectures and specific compiling techniques, superscalar architectures, out of order execution, parallel architectures and multiprocessors.
- Examiner
- Zebo Peng
- Scheduled hours
- 48 h
- Main field of study
- Datateknik, Elektroteknik