Online Courses Handbook 2003

306883 (v.1) Computer Structures 501

Area:	School 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.