BLG 322E - Computer Architecture

Course Objectives

1. Teaching basic techniques of pipelining.
2. Teaching RISC pipeline hazards and solutions.
3. Teaching I/O subsystems including nested interrupts and DMA.
4. Teaching hierarchical memory subsystems including disk subsystem, processor caches, virtual memory, memory error correction.
5. Teaching multiprocessor systems and their interconnectıon networks.

Course Description

Pipeline. Instruction-level parallelism. RISC pipeline. Input-output organization.Interrupts. Direct memory access (DMA). Memory hierarchy, cache memory, virtual memory. RAID: (Redundant Array of Independent/Inexpensive Disks). Multiprocessor systems: Interconnection networks, cache coherence.