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2014-2015 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ECE 468 - Advanced Computer Architecture

Credits 3
Requirements: Prerequisite: ECE 4563 hours lecture
Advanced computer design, emphasizing fundamental limitations and tradeoffs in designing high performance computer systems. Students develop an understanding of the theoretical foundations in both hardware and software by studying parallel computer models; program partitioning, granularity, and latency; processor architectures and interconnects; and memory hierarchy, interleaving and bandwidth. Specific architectures such as shared memory multi-processors, message passing multi-computers, and superscalar, super vector, VLIW, and dataflow designs will be explored.