Department of Physics

18203  Digital Systems and Computer Architecture   

Course Webpage: https://eclass.uoa.gr/courses/D49/

Course Content

• Review of design logic principles and practices.
• Timing analysis of digital systems, metastability and synchronizers.
• Fixed-point number systems.
• Increasing digital system performance with spatial and temporal parallelism.
• VHDL hardware description language for simulation and synthesis.
• Description of digital building blocks in VHDL.
• Architecture of ARM processors (instructions, symbolic language, programming, machine language).
• Detailed ARM architecture processor design for the basic single-cycle and multi-cycle microarchitectures.
• Performance and cost analysis of key microarchitectures.