CECS 341-Computer Architecture & Organization Home

Textbook

    Computer Organization and Design
    The Hardware/Software Interface, 4th Edition
    David Patterson and John Hennessy
    Public Date: 2008
    ISBN: 978-0-12-374493-7



Course Description

Review of logic design. Instruction set architecture. Arithmetic logic units. Data path and control. Pipelining and performance. Memory system organization and design. Virtual memory and paging. I/O interfacing. Vector and array processing. Distributed computing and supercomputing. Contemporary computer designs.

Dr. Michael Chelian
Fall 2009