CSCI 348 - Computer Architecture II

3 Credit(s)

A continuation of CSCI 347 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): CSCI 347.

(SAME AS EE 474)