CSE345


Course CSE345
Title Computer Architecture
Description Starts with functional components at the level of registers, buses, arithmetic, and memory chips, and then uses a register transfer language to manipulate these in the design of hardware systems up to the level of complete computers. Specific topics included are microprogrammed control, user-level instruction sets, I/O systems and device interfaces, control of memory hierarchies, and parallel processing organizations. Crosslisted with ESE 345.
Prerequisite ESE 380
Credit Information 3 - credits
Textbook(s) John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson
Computer organization and design : the hardware/software interface
2nd ed. San Francisco : Morgan Kaufmann, c1998.
Course Webpage http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~cse345
Course Coordinator Tzi-cker Chiueh