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ECE 557 - Computer Architecture and Design

3 Credit Hours
An exploration of the central issues in computer architecture: instruction set design, addressing and register set design, control unit design, microprogramming, memory hierarchies (cache and main memories, mass storage, virtual memory), pipelining, bus organization, RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computers), and CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computers), implementation issues, technology trends, architecture modeling and simulation.


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