CSE 564 - Computer Architecture

(4 credits)

The course explores current trends and future directions in processor micro-architecture as well as various hardware and software techniques in high-performance computing. A review of pipeline and memory hierarchies is followed by advanced topics including branch prediction, dynamic scheduling, superscalar techniques, speculative execution, prefetching, high-speed I/O, VLIW, multi-threaded processors, and application-specific processors such as those for embedded and multimedia systems. This course is cross listed with an undergraduate course. Credit cannot be received for both CSE 564 and CSE 464.

Course updates made after the Graduate Catalog publication date will be posted in the Addendum to the Graduate Catalog.