Course Description

CP464 Selected Topics in Computer Hardware 0.5

Topics will include computer classes and evolution, instruction set design, hardwired sequencer design, microprogramming, memory hierarchies, concurrency, multiple-processor systems, fault-tolerant systems and language based machines. Students will be required to design and build a computer, including the design of the instruction set and the control unit. Extensive use of case studies.

Prerequisite: CP316 and permission of the Department.

Official electronic version updated on November 10, 2000

M. Watson, Editor