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2021-2022 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2021-2022 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

CIS 273 - Comp Organiztn & Design

Credits 3
Lecture / 5 hours per week
Requirements: Prerequisite: CIS 272 C or Better or ECE 161 and ECE 257, and ECE 263
Laws of computer organization and design for RISC architectures. Interfaces between hardware and software are studied. Influence of instruction set on performance is presented. Design of a processor with pipelining is analyzed. Computer arithmetic is studied. Memory hierarchy and their influence on performance is documented. Elements of interfacing and I/O organization are included. The course has a design, implementation, and analytical components. (Formerly offered as CIS 270)
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