CS665 - Computer Architecture
Fall 2021
Instructor: Professor Stephan Olariu
Course Description:
CS665 is a graduate core course in computer architecture.
The main emphasis will be on identifying various quantitative aspects of computer design and on understanding and resolving a number of
cost/performance tradeoffs involved in all stages of computer architecture design from functional
organization to instruction set architecture, to pipelining, to memory hierarchy design, and beyond.
Although most of the course gravitates around single-CPU architectures, aspects of multiprocessor architectures will also be discussed.
Material: Tentative topical coverage
Text: The textbook used in this class is Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, 6-th Edition, Elsevier, 2019.
Prerequisite: CS270 - Introduction to Computer Architecture or equivalent is highly recommended. Beware that students lacking the prerequisite tend not to do well in CS665.
Grading Scheme: The course involve three tests. It is my intention to have the tests administered through Blackboard.
Office Hours: Mondays, 2:00pm - 3:00pm. To be held online via Zoom sessions.
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