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| Instructor | Prof. Suzanne Rivoire |
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| Meeting time | MW 10:00-11:50, Darwin 107 |
| Textbook | Patterson and Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware-Software Interface (Revised printing, third edition) |
Lecture, 4 hours. Instruction set design; stages of instruction execution, data and control path design; CISC, RISC, stack architectures; pipelining; program optimization techniques, memory hierarchy: cache models and design issues, virtual memory and secondary storage; I/O interfacing; advanced topics to include some of the following: parallel architectures, DSP or other special purpose architecture, FPGA, reconfigurable architecture, asynchronous circuit design.
Prerequisite: CS 215 and 252, or consent of instructor.