ELEC 428 - Computer Architecture

Credit Hours: 3

Organization and design of computer system hardware. Provides the basic knowledge required for understanding and designing standard and advanced computer architectures. Topics include: instruction set architectures, ALU design and computer arithmetic, memory organization, cache and virtual memories, controller design, pipelining, and parallelism.

Required of computer engineering majors.
Lecture: 3 hours
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Digital Systems Engineering (ELEC 330 ).