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12856 (v.2) Computer Structures 401

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Area:	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact Hours:	5.0
Credits:	25.0
Lecture:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:	1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s):	12854 (v.2) Computer Structures 303 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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