Advanced Computer Architecture . CMPSC 254
Advanced instruction set architectures, pipelining, dynamic scheduling, branch prediction, superscalar issue, out-of-order execution, memory-hierarchy design, advanced cache architectures and prefetching. Several real designs are dissected and simulators are developed for performing quantitative evaluations of design decisions.
Prerequisites: CMPSC 154 or ECE 154.
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