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CS 282 System Architecture II

Course Description: 

This course covers performance evaluation and benchmarking, pipelining, memory hierarchy, superscalar processors, multiprocessors, and interfacing processors and peripherals. See syllabus for more details.

 

Prerequisites

CS 281

Instructor
Section 001 - Bill Mongan - email: wmm24@cs.drexel.edu

Office hours
Bill: Mondays 6-7 PM and by appointment in UCROSS 147.
Graders: Isaac Gerhart-Hines (ibg23): Wednesdays 6-8 PM (in UCROSS 147)

Meeting Time
Section 501/701 - Monday 4:00-5:50 in Curtis 340

Textbook

1. David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, Third Edition, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, ISBN: 1558606041 (August 2004).
2. Peter J. Ashenden, The Designer's Guide to VHDL, Second Edition, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, ISBN: 1558606742 (May 2002).
3. Optional but Recommended: Randel Bryant and David O'Hallaron, Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective. ISBN: 013034074X

 

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