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Undergraduate Course: Digital System Design 4 (ELEE10007)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Engineering CollegeCollege of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course is lecture based and is taken by all students taking the forth year of electronics and/or electrical engineering degree in Semester 2. It comprises one 22 lecture module with 8 tutorials. It is assessed 100% by examination. The course covers: Computer Architecture ( from a hardware perspective); Components of Computers; Microprocessor Design; and Parallel Computing Architectures
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites It is RECOMMENDED that students have passed Digital System Design 2 (ELEE08015) AND Digital System Design 3 (ELEE09024)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Students MUST NOT also be taking Computer Architecture (INFR09009)
Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesStudents should be familiar with combinational and sequential logic circuit design, understand and be able to design state machines. They should also understand datapaths and be familiar with the associated arithmetic circuits.
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 22, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 8, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 2, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 65 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 100 %, Coursework 0 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) 2 hour Examination, Questions:1 in Section A (20 marks), 2 from 3 in Section B (20 marks each), 60 marks total.
Feedback Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)2:00
Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of the course the students should be able to:
1. Understand digital logic.
2. Understand the different types of computer: embedded, PCs, data-centres, supercomputing; and be able to evaluate the design trade-offs.
3. Discern the differences between software and hardware description languages.
4. Evaluate processor performance: CPU time, instruction count, CPI, benchmarks, power consumption and cost effectiveness.
5. Evaluate the performance improvements from parallel computing architectures.
6. Understand instruction sets: RISC, CISC, types of instruction.
7. Understand and evaluate processor architectures: pipelining, hazards, and branch prediction.
8. Understand computer memory and caching: direct mapped, set-associative and multi-level caches.
9. Evaluate cache performance.
10. Understand I/O and peripherals and evaluate their performance: throughput, latency.
11. Understand the design of modern processors with parallel architectures.
12. Understand the design and implementation of graphics processor units (GPUs)
Reading List
1. Computer Organisation and Design, The Hardware / Software Interface, Patterson & Hennesey, 4th Edition.
ISBN: 9780123747501


Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Adam Stokes
Tel: (0131 6)50 5611
Email: Adam.Stokes@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Sharon Potter
Tel: (0131 6)51 7079
Email: Sharon.Potter@ed.ac.uk
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