EE 345 - Computer Organization

Credits: 3

An introductory course in computer organization, with an emphasis on hardware and implementation. Shows how basic digital circuits are combined and augmented to build all of the parts of a modern computer. Performance enhancements and their hardware implementations are investigated. Topics include instruction set architecture, I/O organization, pipelining, memory systems and cache memory, parallel processing, and embedded systems. Multiple examples are drawn from case studies of several modern processors.

Prerequisites: “C” or better in EE 245.

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