An advanced overview of computer architecture and organization. A study of the relationship between software and hardware and how this affects the design of architectural features: instruction execution, processor internals (including pipelining, parallelism and microcode). Instruction sets, memory and caches, busses, auxiliary storage (disk) controllers and vector processors. Lect: 3 hrs. Prerequisite: CPS 310 Course Weight: 1.00 Billing Units: 1
