COMP ENG 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): COMP ENG 3DR4
Antirequisite(s): COMP SCI 2CA3, SFWR ENG 3G03, SFWR ENG 3GA3