5507 (v.5) Computer Structures 601
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): | 306883 (v.1) Computer Structures 501 or any previous version
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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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