Advanced Computer Architecture. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisite: ECE 353 . This course focuses on advanced concepts in computer systems design, and the interaction between hardware and software components at various levels (i.e., hardware/software codesign). It introduces common performance measures and tradeoffs used by hardware and software designers to facilitate comparative analysis. The main topics are power wall and memory wall technology challenges, pipelining, multicore architecture, advanced memory technologies with an emphasis on non-volatile memories, introduction to parallel computing, domain-specific architectures (i.e., FPGA, ASIC), and an introduction to analog and digital in-memory computing.