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COSC 530 - Computer Systems Organization

3 Credit Hours
An exploration of the central issues in computer architecture: instruction set principles and design, memory hierarchies (cache and main memories, mass storage, virtual memory) and design, pipelining, instruction-level parallelism, bus organization, RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computers), CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computers), multiprocessors, implementation issues, technology trends, architecture modeling and simulation.
Recommended Background: Course work in architecture or machine organization.


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