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2015-2016 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ECE 468 - Advanced Computer Architecture

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Pre-req: ECE 456
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, supervector, VLIW and dataflow designs will be explored. Cross-listed with ECE 562
Graded