Computer Architecture

In this course you will learn how computer components such as processors, memory, or GPUs actually work and how to increase performance from a hardware point of view. You will also use a hardware description language to describe and design digital computing systems. Topics include: processor design, pipelining, cache and storage systems, instruction, thread, and process level parallelism, speculation, and branch prediction.

Each week, we will have three lectures and a lab:

• Lecture: MWF Lecture: 3:30pm - 4:22pm, DANA 319 (MF), Remote (W)

• Lab: R 10:00am - 11:52pm, ACET 116