EE 474 - Computers II

3 Credit(s)

A continuation of EE 473 that includes an overview of computer systems from serial to parallel point of view, the need for pipeline and parallel processing, system attributes to performance, pipeline performance measures, instruction and arithmetic pipelines, pipeline hazards, pipeline scheduling, vector and array processors, static versus dynamic networks, network properties and routing, network topologies such as bus, ring, mesh-connected, hypercube, shuffle-exchange, multistage networks, interconnection design issues, communication models for multiprocessor systems, shared-memory multiprocessors, and message-passing multicomputers.
Prerequisite(s): EE 473.