Arhitectura Sistemelor de Calcul (curs)

Linkuri pentru studenții pasionați și curioși

Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage Differential Engine

1. Introduction
2. Computation Logic
3. Interlocks
4. The Control Section
5. Initialization

Modern implementations

• Full scale replica at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, USA
• Steam powered replica
• LEGO small model

Charles Babbage Analytical Engine

• How Babbage's Analytical Engine Actually Worked
• Babbage's Analytical Engine
• MECANO implementation

Alain Turing

Turing Machine

• Turing Machine and Hilbert's Entscheidungsproblem

Turing Machine crazy but fully functional implementations

• LEGO implementation of a Turing Machine
• Mechanical Turing Machine in Wood
• Paper & Ink Turing Machine
• Turing Machine implemented in Conway's Game of Life

Breaking the Nazi secret communications

• How the Nazi Enigma Machine works
• Breaking the Enigma code
• Breaking the Enigma code with the Turing-Welchman Bombe (Step-by-step example)

Computer Architectures Compared

• RISC vs CISC (The CPU Architecture Battle)
• CPU vs GPU
• CPU vs GPU vs TPU
• Flynn's Taxonomy: SISD, SIMD, MISD & MIMD
• SISD, SIMD, MISD, MIMD Explained: Flynn's Taxonomy & Shared vs Distributed Memory
• Multithreading vs Multiprocessing
• Superscalar vs Superpipelined
• All CPU Architectures from von Neumann to Hybrid Multicores