An introduction to computer architecture and organization. Instruction set design; basic processor implementation techniques; caches and virtual memory; CPUs, GPUs, storage systems, hardware-software ...

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 ...

Morgan State University (MSU) recently received an Apple Innovation Grant, designed to support engineering schools as they develop their silicon and hardware technologies. The New Silicon Initiative ...