CMPS 402B Computer Architecture
402. COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE (Credit,
3 Hours). The course presents advanced principles
and current practices in computer architecture. It
focuses on issues such as CPU design, instruction
set design, hardware and software methods for
exploiting instruction-level parallelism, multiprocessors,
addressing stack architecture, pipeline
architecture, advanced computer architecture.
Assembler programming and performance evaluation
will be covered. Prerequisite: Senior
Standing in CS.