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Jack Baskin School of EngineeringUC Santa Cruz

CMPE 202


Provides a thorough and fundamental treatment of the art of computer
architecture. Topics include concepts of von Neumann architectures,
methods of evaluating CPU performance, instruction-set design and
examples, compiler issues, instruction pipelining, superscalar
processors, methods for reduction of branch penalty, memory
hierarchies, I/O systems, floating-point arithmetic, and current issues
in parallel processing. Prerequisite(s): course 110. Enrollment
restricted to graduate students; undergraduates may enroll if they have
completed course 110 and with consent of instructor. Enrollment limited
to 30. P. Chan, R. Hughey, A. Varma

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