CSC 442 - Computer System Architecture

Advanced study of the architecture of computer systems. Common processor organizations, hardwired and micro-programmed control, input/output subsystem; bus control; programmed I/O; DMA and interrupts; memory subsystem; interleaved, cache and associative memory; cache design; instruction pipelines, arithmetic pipelines, and their scheduling, RISC and CISC architectures, common multiprocessor architectures.

Credit Hours: 3

Prerequisite Courses: CSC 342
Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated. Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3

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