INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: ( E C E/COMP SCI 352 and E C E/COMP SCI 354 ) or graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Breadth - Physical Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Use standard performance metrics to compare performance of different digital systems Audience: Undergraduate 2. Design a pipelined data path for a RISC (reduced instruction set computer) instruction set and identify concepts of data dependence, pipelined hazards and out of order execution Audience: Undergraduate 3. Design basic data and control cache subsystems and be able to operate basic memory systems Audience: Undergraduate 4. Design a pipelined RISC micro-processor system with data cache using computer aided design tool and validate the correctness of the design using logic simulation Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Use standard performance metrics to compare performance of different digital systems Audience: Undergraduate 2. Design a pipelined data path for a RISC (reduced instruction set computer) instruction set and identify concepts of data dependence, pipelined hazards and out of order execution Audience: Undergraduate 3. Design basic data and control cache subsystems and be able to operate basic memory systems Audience: Undergraduate 4. Design a pipelined RISC micro-processor system with data cache using computer aided design tool and validate the correctness of the design using logic simulation Audience: Undergraduate