COMS 5810: Computer Systems Architecture
(Cross-listed with CPRE 5810).
Credits: 3. Contact Hours: Lecture 3.
Prereq: Graduate Standing or Permission of Instructor
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. CPRE 3810 or equivalent computer architecture or computer organization course required. Note that this implies you have a familiarity with ISAs, basic computer organization, memory systems, digital logic design, basic programming (C and assembly), and command-line Linux.
(Typically Offered: Fall)