COMPENG 4DM4 - Computer Architecture

4 unit(s)

Overview of CISC/RISC microprocessors; performance metrics; instruction set design; processor and memory acceleration techniques; pipelining; scheduling; instruction level parallelism; memory hierarchies; multiprocessor structures; storage systems; interconnection networks.
Three lectures, one tutorial, one lab every other week; first term
Prerequisite(s): COMPENG 3DR4
Antirequisite(s): COMPSCI 2GA3, SFWRENG 2GA3, 3GA3