Computer Architecture

An in-depth study of the fundamentals of modern computer processor architecture. Students develop a strong theoretical and practical understanding of the design of modern, cutting-edge, computer architectures and implementations. Studied topics include: instruction-set architecture and high-performance processor organization including pipelining, out-of-order execution, as well as data and instruction parallelism, Cache, memory and storage architectures. Multiprocessors and multicore processors. Coherent caches, interconnection and network infrastructures.