Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

Metrics: performance, cost and power. Week 2: Instruction set architecture: implications and interaction with compilers. Week 3: Advanced Pipelining and introduction to instruction-level parallelism.

Prior knowledge needed: Knowledge of C Programming and embedded computer architecture. Working knowledge of Linux command line operations, shell programming, Git, makefiles. Completion of ECEA 5305 ...