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ECE4705 - Computer architecture

4 points, SCA Band 2, 0.083 EFTSL

Undergraduate Faculty of Engineering

Leader: G Egan

Offered

Clayton Second semester 2007 (Day)
Malaysia First semester 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

The study of high performance computer architectures, pipeline parallelism, datapath control, hazards including data and branch, branch prediction, memory organisation, caches, virtual memory, superscalar architectures and parallel computer architectures.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 70%
Laboratory and assignment work: 30%

Contact hours

26 lectures, 26 hours of practice classes and laboratory classes

Prerequisites

ECE3703