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University of Alberta Calendar 2016-2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ECE 311 - Computer Organization and Architecture


★ 3 (fi 8) (either term, 3-0-0) Survey of modern computer architecture and design concepts. Benchmarks, instruction set design and encoding. Pipelined and superscalar processors. Techniques for exposing and exploiting instruction-level parallelism. Performance of cache and virtual memory hierarchies. Input/output subsystem design. Prerequisite: ECE 212 or E E 380 or CMPUT 229. Credit may be obtained in only one of ECE 311, CMPE 382 or CMPUT 429.