PREREQUISITES BY COURSES: COMP_ENG 361 or consent of the instructor. PREREQUISITES BY TOPIC: Basic notions of computer architecture including programs, instruction sets, simple processor design and ...

Hennessey and D. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach , Morgan Kaufmann, 3rd edition (2002) COURSE GOALS: To learn designing and implementing processor architecture and learn to ...

Examines the basic functional components of a computer system including the CPU, memory systems, and I/O systems. Each of these three areas will be developed in detail with a focus on the system ...