PCSE Department Courses

CPEN 414. Computer Architecture (3-3-0)

Prerequisite: Either CPEN 315 or CPSC 330.
Offering: Spring.

The basic issues and techniques in computer architecture and design. Survey of architectures; instruction set design; software influences on architecture; processor implementation and simulation; pipelining; memory and I/O subsystems; special purpose architectures.

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