CprE 305 - Computer Systems Organization and Architecture

Text Book:

Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, Second Edition,
D. A. Patterson and J. L. Hennessy, Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.

Course Outline:

• Introduction to computer organization
• Evaluating performance
• Instruction set design
• Computer arithmetic
• Processor: Datapath and Control
• Pipelining
• Memory organization
• Interfacing processors and peripherals
• Advanced Topics