COEN 6741 - Computer Architecture and Design

Review of basic computer architecture designs. Fundamentals of computer design and performance. Cost issues. Instruction set design principles. Memory hierarchies: registers, caches and virtual memories. Basic processor implementation issues. High performance computing issues such as pipelining, superscalar and vector processing. Input/output subsystem designs. A project.

Book:

"Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" (6th Ed.) by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, Elsevier, 2019. Cambridge, MA : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, [2019]

Registration Information:

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