2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Engineering Undergraduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Computer Architecture (Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
- Academic unit or major
- Undergraduate major in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Instructor(s)
- Tomoyuki Miyamoto
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- EEE.C331
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course focuses on the fundamentals of computer structure and basic operation. Being based on model architecture COMET II, the instructor lectures on controlling hardware using hardware descriptions and instruction sets. The instructor also lectures on structures of memory and bus, stacks, register-to-register command, and pipeline control.
Course description and aims
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1) Understand the basic structure and operation of computer hardware.
2) Acquire the fundamentals of hardware description and control using an instruction set.
Corresponding educational goals are:
(1) 【Specialist skills】 Fundamental specialist skills
(4) 【Applied skills】 (inquisitive thinking and/or problem-finding skills) Organization and analysis
(7) Skills acquiring a wide range of expertise, and expanding it into more advanced and other specialized areas
Keywords
computer hardware, microprocessor, COMET II, CASL II, instruction set
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
- ・Applied specialist skills on EEE
Class flow
Lectures are exercises on the basic concepts learned in class.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | History of computer, and review of digital circuit theory | Understand what is computer. Learn the history and applications of computer system. Concise review of logic circuit is also shown. |
| Class 2 | Basic structure of computer, and machine language | Learn about the basic configuration of computer system. Explain the basics about machine language. |
| Class 3 | Basic instruction set and assembly language | Understand the basic usage of instruction set. Exercise on assembly language. |
| Class 4 | ALU, shifter instruction, multiplication and division instructions. | Learn about ALU and shifter functions, and their applications to basic operation. |
| Class 5 | Stack, sub-program, bus structure | Understand the functions of stack and sub-program. Structure of bus is also explained. |
| Class 6 | Control of processor | Methods for controlling processor with signals are explained. |
| Class 7 | Configuration for high performance computers | Learn how to improve computer performance through memory configuration, parallel processing, accelerators, etc. |
| Class 8 | Wrap-up | Review and summarize the lectures. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
The lectures will be based on the lecture materials prepared and distributed by the instructor.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
English text is under preparation.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Final exam, 70%; exercise problems, 30%.
Related courses
- EEE.M221 ： Computation Algorithms and Programming
- EEE.C321 ： Digital Electronic Circuits
Prerequisites
No prerequisites.