Computer Architecture

4 credits

Modern processors, GPUs, and memory hierarchies; quantitative principles and instruction set design; pipelining, superscalar issue, out-of-order execution, branch prediction and speculation; memory hierarchies, caches, virtual addressing, prefetching, coherence, and consistency; multicores, VLIW, on-chip networks, and other advanced architectures. Credit will be granted for only one of CPEN_V 411 or CPSC_V 313. [3-0-2]. Prerequisite: CPEN_V 211 and CPEN_V 212. This course is not eligible for Credit/D/Fail grading.