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 ...

Engineers boost computer processor performance by over 20 percent Date: February 7, 2012 Source: North Carolina State University Summary: Researchers have developed a new technique that allows ...

Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware Software Interface: ARM Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design), by Patterson and Hennessy. Instructor assigned readings ...

The Armv9 architecture will continue to spread to the Arm microcontroller, real-time, and application processors over time. The Cortex-A for smartphones will come to market first.

A microchip-based quantum computer has been built incorporating an architecture in which calculations are carried out by shuttling atomic ions. The device exhibits excellent performance and ...

Understand the architecture of a basic computer system and its components, and the role of performance in designing computer systems. Understand how to design and instruction set and its impact on ...