| Activity | Credits | Period | Academic staff | Timetable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teoria | 9 | 1st Semester, 2nd Semester | Franco Fummi | |
| Laboratorio [indirizzo generale] | 3 | 1st Semester, 2nd Semester | Nicola Bombieri | |
| Laboratorio [indirizzo multimediale] | 3 | 1st Semester, 2nd Semester | Nicola Bombieri |
This course presents the theoretical and practical knowledge to implement an algorithm into a digital architecture. Some design alternatives are presented ranging from a pure software, running on a general purpose computer, to an ad-hoc hardware implementation. This design knowledge is fundamental for understanding in depth all mechanisms on the base of any information computing system and all steps of a compilation chain transforming an high-level programming language into machine-level code.
Fundamentals: information coding, Boolean functions, arithmetic.
Digital devices design: combinational circuits, sequential circuits, controller-datapath circuits, programmable units.
Computer architecture: basic principles, instruction set, elaboration unit, memory hierarchy, I/O organization, actual architectures, parallel architectures.
Practical exercises: automatic design of a programmable system, assembly programming of the Intel 80X86 architecture.
Theory compprehension is verified through a written examination which could be divided in two parts (each one at the end of the corresponding semester).
Practical skills are evaluated through two designs; their average mark is in the range 1-4 and it is added to the mark of the written examination.
| Activity | Author | Title | Publisher | Year | ISBN | Note |
| Teoria | Y.N. Patt, S.J. Patel | Introduction to Computing Systems (Edizione 2) | McGrawHill | 2004 | 978-0-07-246750-5 | Testo relativo al secondo semestre che copre tutti gli argomenti di architettura del calcolatore |
| Teoria | Franco Fummi, Mariagiovanna Sami, Cristina Silvano | Progettazione Digitale (Edizione 2) | McGraw-Hill | 2007 | 8838663521 | Testo relativo al primo semestre che copre tutti gli argomenti di progettazione digitale |
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| Orario dettagliato primo semestre |
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| Orario dettagliato secondo semestre |
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