خطة مادة المعمارية (تقسيم الدرجات - المصادر- مواضيع الكورس)

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أولا: المقدمة
Computer architecture is concerned with all aspects of the design and organization of the central processing unit and the integration of the CPU into the computer system itself. Architecture extends upward into computer software because a processor’s architecture must cooperate with the operating system and system software. It is impossible to design an operating system well without a knowledge of the underlying architecture. Moreover, the computer designer has to have an intimate understanding of software in order to implement the optimum architecture. Computer architecture is a key component of computer engineering and the practicing computer engineer should have a practical understanding of this topic. Consequently, computer architecture courses should include a laboratory component where students are able to evaluate alternative designs.
ثانياً: أهداف المقرر
1. Identify some contributors to computer architecture and organization and relate their achievements to the knowledge area.
2. Articulate differences between computer organization and computer architecture.
3. Identify some of the components of a computer.
4. Explain the use of memory hierarchy to reduce the effective memory latency.
5. Explain how interrupts are used to implement I/O control and data transfers.
6. Be able to design an interface to memory
7. Understand how to interface and use peripheral chips
8. Discuss the generation of control signals using hardwired or microprogrammed implementations.
9. Explain basic instruction level parallelism using pipelining and the major hazards that may occur.
10. Discuss the concept of parallel processing beyond the classical von Neumann model
11. Appreciate the problems caused by cache coherency and understand the ways in which the problem can be overcome.