Fundamentals of instruction set architecture (ISA) and processor & memory organization. Topics include ISA, arithmetic circuits, register file, single-cycle, multi-cycle, and pipelined microarchitecture, memory operation, cache, virtual memory, parallel architectures.
Prerequisites
ECE 2170 and ECE 2172 and ECE 2173
Corequisites
ECE 3171
Corequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2026, Fall 2025, Fall 2024