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Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2008
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COMP 425 001 (CRN: 10725)
COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE
Long Title: COMPUTER SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE
Department: Computer Science
Instructor: Varman, Peter J.
Meeting: 2:00PM - 2:50PM MWF (25-AUG-2008 - 5-DEC-2008)
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: (COMP 320 OR ELEC 320) AND ELEC 326
Section Max Enrollment: 40
Section Enrolled: 1
Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 40
Total Cross-list Enrolled: 12
Enrollment data as of: 3-MAY-2024 3:31PM
Final Exam: Take-Home Exam
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.