In the following, PH5 stands for the Fifth Edition of
the Patterson and Hennessy book "Computer Organization and Design".

The page ranges below should be interpreted as a broad guideline.
Obviously, technical details or material that was not covered in class
is not part of the material to study. 

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Intro:
 presentation.courseIntro.SystemsArchitecture.1415.pdf

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"Systems"

1. Computer Abstractions and Technology: performance

 presentation.computerAbstractionsTechnology.pdf
 PH5 pp. 2 - 25, 28 (1.6) - 42, 46 (1.9) - 53

2. Data representation

 presentation.dataRepresentation.pdf

3. Arithmetic for Computers

 presentation.computerArithmetic.pdf
 PH5 pp. 178 - 222

4. Instructions: Language of the Computer

 presentation.computerLanguage.pdf

 PH5 pp. 60 - 120, 123 (2.12) - 163

 presentation.exceptions.pdf
 exceptions_example.asm
 PH5 pp. 326 - 327, Appendix A pp. 33 - 40

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"Architecture"

5. Logic Design

 presentation.logicDesign.pdf
 PH5 Appendix B pp. 1 - 20, 26 - 47 

 presentation.memory.pdf
  NOT pp. 22-23
 PH5 Appendix B pp. 48 - 56, 58 - 71
                no details about B.9, only general notions of concepts

6. Datapath

 presentation.datapathSimple.pdf
 PH5 pp. 242 - 271

7. Pipelining

 presentation.pipelining.pdf
 PH pp. 272 - 303

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Leerstof:

 55% punten
  oefeningen gedurende het jaar

 20% punten
  oefeningenexamen: enkel architectuur.
  Vergelijkbare opgaven als gedurende het semester,
  met wat pertinente systeemvragen zoals hex representatie van een instructie.
  Open boek, mag jaaroplossingen meebrengen op USB stick.
  * mondeling verdedigen

 25% punten
 theorieexamen (schriftelijk)
  * theorievragen
  * assembleroefeningen ("instructietabel", exception registers gegeven)

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