Computer Organization

Catalog description

An introductory course in computer organization, with an emphasis on hardware and implementation. Shows how basic digital circuits are combined and augmented to build all of the parts of a modern computer. Performance enhancements and their hardware implementations are investigated. Topics include instruction set architecture, I/O organization, pipelining, memory systems and cache memory, parallel processing, and embedded systems. Multiple examples are drawn from case studies of several modern processors. Prerequisites: “C” or better in EE 245 .