CS425: Computer Systems Architecture (Fall 2025)
Department of Computer Science, University of Crete
Schedule
Class hours: Monday and Wednesday 13.15 - 15.00 in room H.204.
Office hours: Mondays 12:00 - 13:00 @ K319 (by appointment)
Staff
| Instructor | Teaching Assistant(s) |
| Vassilis Papaefstathiou | Mr. Sotiris Totomis |
Course Information
| Area: | Hardware and Computer Systems (E4) |
| Description: | Performance metrics, pipelining and hazards, dynamic instruction scheduling with scoreboard and Tomasulo, ILP and static instruction scheduling, branch prediction, precise exceptions, speculation, multiple issue out-of-order superscalar processors, VLIW processors, thread level paralellism and multithreaded processors, multi-level cache memories and design optimizations, virtual memory and TLBs, multicore processors, snoop-based cache coherence, memory consistency, DRAM main memory technologies. |
| ECTS: | 6 |
| Prerequisites: | CS225 Computer Organization |
| Grading: |
Homeworks/Assignments: 35% (grade must be > 4.5)
Midterm Exam: 20% (mandatory) Final Exam: 45% (grade must be > 4.5) |
| Mailing-list: | hy425-list at csd dot uoc dot gr |
Textbooks and Reading Material
Hennessy and Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 6th Edition/2020. Available in Greek (Klidarithmos Publishers, translation by D. Gizopoulos). ISBN 978-960-645-095-2.
William Stallings, Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance, 11th Edition/2020. Available in Greek (Tziolas Publishers, translation by M. Roumeliotis). ISBN 978-960-418-892-5.
Additional reading: Shen and Lipasti, Modern Processor Design, Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors, McGraw Hill, 2005, ISBN 0-07-059033-8.
Additional reading material will be posted as needed, during classes. Reading material includes Chapters from other textbooks (in English) and technical papers from conferences or journals covering the field of Computer Architecture.
Homeworks and Assignments
| Date | Description | Material | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBA | Homework 1 | HW | TBA |
Websites from Previous Years
- Fall 2024 (taught by V. Papaefstathiou)
- Fall 2023 (taught by V. Papaefstathiou)
- Fall 2022 (taught by V. Papaefstathiou)
- Fall 2021 (taught by V. Papaefstathiou)
- Fall 2020 (taught by V. Papaefstathiou)
- Fall 2019 (taught by V. Papaefstathiou)
- Fall 2018 (taught by V. Papaefstathiou)
- Fall 2017 (taught by V. Papaefstathiou)
- Fall 2016 (taught by V. Papaefstathiou and I. Mavroidis)
- Fall 2015 (taught by I. Mavroidis)
- Fall 2014 (taught by I. Mavroidis)
- Fall 2013 (taught by C. Sotiriou and I. Mavroidis)
- Fall 2012 (taught by C. Sotiriou and I. Mavroidis)
- Fall 2011 (taught by D. Nikolopoulos)
- Fall 2008
- Spring 2008
- Spring 2002 (taught by C. Sotiriou)