CS 451 Advanced Computer Architecture

Total Credits: 3 cr

Course Coordinator: Robert Rinker

URL: http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~rinker/cs551/index.html

Current Catalog Description: Principles and alternatives in instruction set design; processor implementation techniques, pipelining, parallel processors, memory hierarchy, and input/output; measurement of performance and cost/performance trade-off.

Textbook:John Hennessy and David Patterson, Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach, 3rd Ed, Morgan Kaufmann, 2003. or equivalent text.

References: Additional course references are available on the course web site.

Course Goals: After completing this course a student should:

Prerequisites by Topic: List topics

Major Topics Covered in the Course:

Laboratory projects (specify number of weeks on each): None.

Estimated Curriculum Category Content:

Area	Core	Advanced	Area	Core	Advanced
Algorithms			Data Structures
Software Design			Prog. Languages
Computer Arch		3 cr	Other

Oral and Written Communications: None

Social and Ethical Issues: None.

Theoretical Content: None.

Problem Analysis: None.

Solution Design: None.

Course Outcomes: The following list documents the course outcomes and crossreferences them to the BSCS program outcomes. The letter at the beginning of each reference identifies the program outcome supported. The numbers sequentially identify the course outcome for this course. After completing CS 451 a student should be able to: