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Apr 29, 2024
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University of Alberta Calendar 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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CMPUT 429 - Computer Systems and Architecture Course Career Undergraduate Units 3 Approved Hours 3-0-3 Fee index 6 Faculty Science Department Computing Science Typically Offered either term
Description A discussion of computer system design concepts with stress on modern ideas that have shaped the high-performance architecture of contemporary systems. Instruction sets, pipelining, instruction-level parallelism, register reuse, branch prediction, CPU control, cache- coherence, accelerators, and related concepts. Memory technologies, caches, I/O, high-performance networks. Prerequisites: CMPUT 201 or 275; one of CMPUT 229, E E 380 or ECE 212. Credit may be obtained in only one of CMPUT 429 or CMPE 382.
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