ECE 5580 - Computer Architecture

This course examines fundamental computer system design trade-offs and the state-of-the-art in computer architecture with case studies of current and proposed microprocessor architectures. Students will study datapath pipelining/superpipelining, dynamic instruction scheduling, hyper-threading, improving memory throughout, SIMD parallelism, VLIM/EPIC processors, and multi-core processors.

Note: Open to upper-level undergraduate and graduate students.

Prerequisites/Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECE 3570 or graduate student in electrical and computer engineering or instructor’s approval.

Credits: 3 hours

Restrictions: Restricted to accelerated master’s and graduate students in electrical and computer engineering.
Lecture Hours - Laboratory Hours: (3 - 0)