Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; research, 3 hours
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Prerequisites: CS 161; graduate standing
Description: Covers contemporary computer systems architecture including pipelined CPU design, instruction level parallelism, memory hierarchy, thread level parallelism, introduction to multiprocessing, and evaluation of computer performance.
Credit: May be taken Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) with consent of instructor and graduate advisor.