- Computer Architecture 2

Catalog description

This course examines the organization and design of modern computer systems from both hardware and software perspectives. Topics include processor programming models, data representation, assembly language and C programming, memory systems, input/output interfacing, multiprocessing, and computer communication, as well as performance enhancement techniques such as pipelining, instruction-level parallelism, branch prediction, caching, and virtual memory. Students complete hands-on programming and design projects using Linux, C, hardware description languages, CAD tools, and embedded platforms such as the BeagleBone Black, and conclude with a survey of contemporary processor architectures.