EE 669 - Computer Architecture

3 Credit(s)

An overview of computer systems, architectural classification schemes, system attributes to performance, instruction set design and examples, arithmetic logic unit, memory system design, introduction to pipelining, pipeline performance measures, instruction and arithmetic pipelines, pipeline hazards, scheduling pipelines, RISC versus CISC architecture, introduction to interconnection networks, network topologies, interconnection design decisions, multiprocessors versus multicomputer, design and analysis of parallel algorithms, data flow and systolic array architectures.