Highlights of this Course
This is a course in Vietnam OpenCourseWare – VOCW. It offers virtually all of its materials online, including lecture notes.
Course Description
The course is to study the computer architecture and computer organization. A computer system, as any system, the computer consists of an interrelated set of components in the structure, the way in which the components are interconnected and operated. Furthermore, a computer’s organization is hierarchical, multilevel machine from the top down: Computer System, Processor- Computer Arithmetic, Instruction-set Architecture, Control Unit, and Micro-architecture. This course is about the aspects of both Computer Architecture (attributes of a multilevel machine, a system visible to Micro-architecture, Micro-Programming level) and Computer Organization (the operational components and their interconnections in the system). Moreover, some advanced architectures will be presented.
This course consists of 16 lecture notes of 16 modules or 16 sessions. Each module is designed to provide theoretical fundamental and practical exercises.
Course Author
Lecturer: Assoc. Prof Dr. Nguyen Thi Hoang Lan
Lecturer: Ph.D Nguyen Kim Khanh
Assistant: Eng.Tran Trung Kien