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Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2009
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ELEC 425 001 (CRN: 10366)
COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE
Long Title: COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE
Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.
Instructor: Varman, Peter J.
Meeting: 2:00PM - 2:50PM MWF (24-AUG-2009 - 4-DEC-2009)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture/Laboratory
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 4
Course Syllabus:
Prerequisites: ELEC 326
Section Max Enrollment: 40
Section Enrolled: 11
Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 40
Total Cross-list Enrolled: 21
Enrollment data as of: 19-APR-2024 1:15PM
Final Exam: Take-Home Exam
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: COMP 425.