Advanced Computer Architecture: 3 semester hours

Catalog description

New technological developments, including details of multiprocessor systems and specialized machines. The main focus is on the quantitative analysis and cost-performance tradeoffs in instruction set, pipeline, and memory design. Descriptions of real systems and their performance data are also given. Topics covered include quantitative performance measures, instruction set design, pipelining, vector processing, memory organization, input/output methods, and an introduction to parallel processing. Prerequisites: COMP 3304 or COMP 3043.