Combinatorial and sequential circuits. Programmable logic arrays. Processor design: information formats, instruction formats, arithmetic operations and parallel processing. Hardwired and ...

Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations (e.g., ALU); Control design; Single cycle, multiple cycle and ...

Combinatorial and sequential circuits. Programmable logic arrays. Processor design: information formats, instruction formats, arithmetic operations and parallel processing. Hardwired and ...

We are expanding this work to studying how other emerging semiconductor technologies that provide qualitatively new capabilities affect computer architecture design.

PREREQUISITES BY TOPIC: Basic notions of computer architecture including programs, instruction sets, simple processor design and memories. Week 1: Review of basic system design, technology, evaluation ...

Although it's expensive, this is easily the best architecture software around, delivering powerful computer-aided design specifically tailored to professional architects, so has all the features ...