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): ELEC 326

Description: Advanced uniprocessor system architecture. Advanced pipelining; dynamic scheduling, precise interrupt handling. Advanced techniques for exploiting instruction level parallelism; superscalar and VLIW architectures. Case studies of recent high-performance microprocessors. Vector and DSP processors. Memory system improvement-cache, virtual memory, and main memory enhancements. I/O performance enhancements. Introduction to parallel architectures. Cross-list: ELEC 425.