EKT303/4 PRINCIPLES OF PRINCIPLES OF COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE (PoCA)
Staffs Dr. Muhammad Imran Ahmad Rafikha Aliana A.Raof Dr. Phaklen Ehkan
Textbook
Chap. 1: Introduction to Comp. Architecture Chap. 2: Foundation to Comp. Architecture Chap. 3: Design Methodology Chap. 4: Central Processing Unit (CPU) Basics Chap. 5: Processor Internals Chap. 6: Enhancing CPU Performance Chap. 7: CPU Externals Chap. 8: Practical Embedded CPUs Chap. 9: Evolution of Computer Architecture refer teaching plan Contents (lecture)
VHDL as hardware programming Altera Quartus II as a development platform Altera DE FPGA board Laboratory
VHDL – Design Flow VHDL entry Netlist (Gate level) Optimised Netlist (Gate level) Physical device compilation optimization simulation synthesis simulation Place & route
Code Structure – Fundamental VHDL units Library declaration Entity Architecture Basic VHDL Code
Example VHDL code for FA unit library ieee; use ieee.std_logic_1164.all; entity full_adder is port (a,b,cin : in bit; s, cout : out bit; end full_adder; architecture dataflow of full_adder is begin s <= a XOR b XOR cin; cout <= (a AND b) OR (a AND cin) OR (b AND cin); END dataflow; circuit
Lecture: Monday: 03-04pm (CommE) – DK5 Friday: (CommE) – BPU7 Laboratory (MKM7): G1: 11 – 01pm G2: 10 – 12pm Contact Hours
Test, Quiz & Assignment = 30% Lab. Component = 20% Final Exam = 50% Assessment
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