Computer Systems and Architecture

Module Information

80% exam in May/June (resit in August)
20% Continuous assessment consisting of
- 5% Peerwise exercise (issued in week 1, deadline in week 9, feedback in week 11)
- 5% written exercise (issued in week 3, deadline in week 5, feedback in week 6)
- 5% written exercise (issued in week 6, deadline in week 8, feedback in week 9)
- 5% written exercise (issued in week 9, deadline in week 10, feedback in week 11)

Week 1	Introductory Notes The von Neumann Architecture
Week 2	The Instruction Set Architecture Exercises on Assembly Language (Solutions)
Week 3	Functions, Subroutines, and the Memory Map
Week 4	From Small Fragments to Whole Programs in MIPS Videos MIPS Assembly Programs Simple Adder (2 numbers) Simple Adder (n numbers) Demo of nested function calls using the stack Recursive factorial Towers of Hanoi
Week 5	MIPS Microarchitecture Videos
Week 6	More MIPS Microarchitecture Videos
Week 7	Caches and Virtual Memory Videos
Week 8	I/O and Peripherals Videos
Week 9	Introduction to Digital Logic Videos
Week 10	Memory and Clocked Logic Video for week 10 is unfortunately not available.
Week 11	Improving Performance Introduction to Networks Videos