Computer Design

Catalog description

This course will cover several topics in the area of computer architecture. We will discuss various concepts behind the designs of current mircroprocessors. In particular, the topics that will be covered in the course are: RISC machines and instruction set architectures, performance evaluation, pipelined architecture, static and dynamic scheduling, instruction-level parallelism, advanced pipelining, speculative execution, memory hierarchy and organization, multi-processing, compiler techniques (and more). Lecture portion meets with EECE 452. Extra assignments, and/or final project will be required at the graduate level. Prerequisite: EECE 351 or equivalent. Offered every fall semester.