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ECE 5381 - Computer Architecture

Credits: 3

Introduces the state of the art in uniprocessor computer architecture, with a focus on the quantitative analysis and cost-performance trade-offs in instruction set, pipeline, and memory design. Topics include quantitative analysis of performance and hardware costs, instruction set design, pipeline, delayed branch, memory organization, and advanced instruction-level parallelism. Prerequisites: C- or better in CS 4381  or ECE 3382 .


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