CS 4430     Computer Architecture II (4)		2005


  Catalog Description:
    Advanced computer organizaton and design. Topics chosen from
    among RISC architectures, computer arithmetic, pipelining,
    cache memory, and parallel processors.
    Prerequisite: CS 3430; recommended Knowledge of C programming


Course outline (following Patterson and Hennesy)
  Cover Chapters 1-7.  You should read Chapters 1 & 2 on your own.

  Chapters 1 & 2 for student's own reading.

  Chapter 3:  Assembly language and machine language in MIPS (a RISC
     architecture)
  Chapter 4:  Computer arithmetic -- ALUs and hardware implementations
     of arithmetic operations for ints and floats
  Chapter 5:  Designing the processor
  Chapter 6:  Pipelining to increase speed
  Chapter 7:  Memory -- using caches and memory hierarchies

  Portions of the appendices will also be examined.

Text:  Computer Organization & Design (2nd edition)
         by Patterson and Hennessy