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306883 (v.1) Computer Structures 501



 

Area:Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact Hours:4.0
Credits:25.0
Lecture:1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s):5507 (v.5) Computer Structures 601 or any previous version
The design process for computer structures. Architectural philosophies - RISC and CISC. Processor performance measurement and analysis. Processor organisations. Instruction set - register file interactions. Exploiting instructional level parallelism - pipelining, scheduling VLIW. Models of distributed memory and memory management. Exception handling. System implementation issues - logical, and physical organisation, interconnection busses. Models of distributed memory and memory management.

 
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