CS665 - Computer Architecture

Spring 2020

Instructor: Professor Stephan Olariu

Course Description:
Please note that in Spring 2020 CS665 will be offered in the traditional face-to-face delivery mode
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 issues involved in all stages of computer architecture design from functional organization to instruction set architecture, to memory hierarchy design, to pipelining, 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. CS665 is not open to students who have not had CS270 or equivalent.

Grading Scheme: For the students in the Tidewater area the tests will be administered at the ODU campus. Students outside of the Tidewater area will take the tests at designated testing centers

Office Hours: Friday 2:00pm - 3:00pm

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The Office of Educational Accessibility is located at 1021 Student Success Center and their phone number is (757)683-4655. Additional information is available at the OEA website: http://www.odu.edu/educationalaccessibility/


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