CECS 630 - Advanced Computer Architecture I

(3 units)

Prerequisite: Open to Computer Science MS, Computer Engineering MS, or Engineering MS students only.
Fundamentals of computer architecture. Parallelism, Instruction Level Parallelism, Pipelining. Hazards and their management, Branch Prediction, Dynamic Scheduling, Multiple Instructions, Multithreading, Data Level Parallelism, SIMD, Graphic Processing Units, Memory Hierarchy, Cache, Virtual Memory, Protection. Master’s students register in CECS 530 or CECS 630; Ph.D. students register in CECS 630. Additional projects required for CECS 630.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-problems 3 hours) Double Numbered with: CECS 530