Computer Architecture II: Organization ((4))

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This course focuses on the design of the CPU and computer system at a functional level. Topics include CPU instruction sets and functional units, control unit design, interrupt handling and DMA, I/O support, memory hierarchy, virtual memory, buses and bus timing, and an introduction to instruction level parallelism, multithreading, and multiprocessing. Hardware security issues will also be discussed. Each week lecture meets for 150 minutes and lab meets for 150 minutes.