Digital Computer Architecture

Undergraduate

Computer Organization and architecture (32 bit); computer abstraction; reduced instruction set; high level to assembler level language translation; pipelinable instruction set architectures; speculation and branch prediction; instruction level parallelism; memory hierarchies, and virtual memory; secondary storage and I/O; multithreading, multicore, multiple CPU, and clustering; Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). (Prerequisites: completion of all Electrical Engineering courses from 1st year, 2nd year and 3rd year.) (3 lecture, 3 laboratory/tutorial hours a week.)