Computer Organization

Catalog description

Computer organization and architecture with emphasis in the design of single and multicore architectures; quantitative cost, performance-power trade-offs, Amdahl’s Law, instruction set architecture (RISC), assembly language programming, number representations, adders and simple ALUs, integer and floating point computer arithmetic, single and multi-cycle implementation of control and data-path design, pipelining with hazard detection, memory hierarchy and memory management, cache and virtual memory, and I/O devices. Term paper/project involving computer hardware design and system simulation required.