Digital Systems Architecture

3 credits

Latency and bandwidth, cache memory, virtual memory, data compression, fault handling. Fundamentals of I/O, interrupts, external storage, buses, networks, multimedia support. Multiprocessor and parallel architectures, parallel decomposition, pipelining, shared memory systems, interconnection networks, cache consistency, memory consistency. Computational paradigms, performance evaluation, and effect of proximity. *** Prerequisite: CS 201 ***