EE 5683 - Computer Architecture

Emphasis on the design of advanced architectural concepts for multicores; performance trade-offs for multicores, advanced pipelining, superscalar and dynamic scheduling, limits of instruction level parallelism, multithreading and multicores, multi-level caching, virtual memory, I/O fundamentals and techniques, classification of parallel machines, shared memory multiprocessors, cache coherence, interconnection networks and clusters. Term paper/project involving computer hardware design and system simulation required.

Requisites

Credit Hours: 3.0
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture

Eligible grades: A-F,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I