Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE

Department: Computer Science

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory

Credit Hours: 4

Prerequisite(s): (COMP 320 OR ELEC 320) AND ELEC 326

Description: Design of advanced uniprocessor system architecture and basics of parallel architectures. Advanced pipelining, including dynamic scheduling and precise interrupt handling. Advanced techniques for exploiting instruction level parallelism, including superscalar and VLIW architectures. Case studies of several recent high-performance microprocessors. Vector processors. Memory system design--techniques to improve cache performance, virtual memory systems, main memory enhancements. I/O systems--disk arrays and graphical interfaces. An overview of parallel computers. Cross-list: ELEC 425.