CS 450
Computer Architecture
Winter 2026
Topics
- Computer architecture
- Processor and memory-system design
- Hardware-software interfaces
- Domain-specific accelerators
- New memory technologies
2015
Topics
- Digital hardware design
- Instruction set architecture
- Scalar pipelines
- VLIW pipelines
- Dynamic pipelines
- Thread-level parallelism
- Data-level parallelism
Readings
- Parallel Computer Organization and Design
- Course notes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- course_website ↗Winter 2026
- departmental_course_outline ↗2015
- Departmental typical outline and references; assignments and textbooks may vary by term. Source revision: August 11, 2015. Year refers to the departmental revision date, not a specific offering.