Elect Engr & Computer Science - Computer Systems Architecture

Catalog description

This is an introductory course to the design of single-chip microprocessors and systems. The course covers materials including instruction set architecture, datapath design, control path design, pipelining, multiple-issue superscalar processors, out-of-order processors, memory hierarchy, memory management, multicore, caches, memory technologies, data parallel architectures, interrupts and I/O structures. Only one of EECS 643 and EECS 645 may be used to satisfy EECS degree requirements. Prerequisite: EECS 388.