COMS 5810: Computer Systems Architecture
(Cross-listed with CPRE 5810).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Quantitative principles of computer architecture design, instruction set design, processor architecture: pipelining and superscalar design, instruction level parallelism, memory organization: cache and virtual memory systems, multiprocessor architecture, cache coherency, interconnection networks and message routing, I/O devices and peripherals. (Typically Offered: Fall)