NIS 514 Computer Architecture
Measures of cost, performance, and speedup; instruction set design; processor design; hard-wired and microprogrammed control; memory hierarchies; pipelining; input/output systems; and additional topics as time permits. The emphasis in this course is on quantitative analysis of design alternatives.
Cross Listed Courses
CPE 514/ CS 514/ NIS 514 - Computer Architecture
Prerequisite
(
CPE 550 or
CS 383) and (Grad Student or (Junior or Senior))