Computer Architecture

Catalog description

In this course, one becomes familiar with main components of modern computer systems and learns to design efficient systems. Topics include Boolean circuits, the ALU, RISC, Instruction Set Architecture, arithmetic for computers, pipelining,the memory hierarchy, caching, address translation, memory protection, virtual memory, I/O, interrupts, branch prediction, dynamic scheduling, Tomasulo's algorithm, parallel computing, vector processors, and multicores.