 | Graduate Course Descriptions
CSE240 - Principles in Computer Architecture I
(Renumbered to CSE 240A - Fall 2002)
Units: 4
Course Description:
Architectural description tools, performance evaluation, uniprocessor issues, including I-unit and E-unit concepts. RISC/CISC issues, bottlenecks, I/O channels and processors. micro- and nano-programming, memory hierarchy, virtual machines, high-level language machines. Performance enhancements: pipelining, instruction lookahead, branch prediction, reduced semantic dependencies.
Prerequisites:
CSE 141 or consent of instructor.
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