Computer Science (Computer Architecture) - 21012-2

courses

ID:

21012-2

Dettaglio:

SSD: SISTEMI DI ELABORAZIONE DELLE INFORMAZIONI Duration: 24 CFU: 3

SSD: Data Processing Systems Duration: 48 CFU: 6

Located in:

DALMINE

Url:

Course Details:

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING - 21-R/PERCORSO COMUNE Year: 1

Course Details:

ELECTRONICS AND AUTOMATION ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY - 96-270R/Percorso comune Year: 1

Year:

2025

Course Catalogue:

https://unibg.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (23/02/2026 - 06/06/2026)

Course Objectives

The course intends to introduce the architecture of microprocessors and microcomputers explaining their functioning through programming assembly language. The course aims to highlight the relationships between computer architecture and microelectronic technologies and the organization of basic software. Application examples concern an assembly language and the development of simple programs in a specific development environment. At the end of the course, the student will have the knowledge of the basic principles of operation and programming of computer systems.

Course Prerequisites

The principles of programming.

Teaching Methods

Lessons and practical exercises using PCs also.

Assessment Methods

The course includes a written test which consists of multiple choice questions/open questions and an oral test which has the purpose of verifying the knowledge of the assembly language through the discussion of a project previously sent. Low mark of the written test precludes the possibility of taking the oral test.

Computer Architecture
Hardware, firmware and software. Electronic components of a computer. Memory unit and its management. Input and output units and related management. Interrupt. Interconnection between functional units: bus.
CPU architecture
Functional units, registers, transfer language between registers; control unit, micro-commands, microprogramming.
Microprocessor and assembly language
Microprocessors and systems built on microprocessors. Addressing instructions of an assembly language. Representation of information, relative numbers, conversions between representations, real numbers. Arithmetic unit, ripple carry adder and carry lookahead adder. Examples of programs written in assembly language.
The project development environment
Assembler. Linker-Loader. Simulator. Examples of programs written in assembly language and related development using a simulator.