ECE 3170: Computer Architecture

Fundamentals of instruction set architecture (ISA) and processor & memory organization. Topics include ISA, arithmetic circuits, register file, single-cycle, multi-cycle, and pipelined microarchitecture, memory operation, cache, virtual memory, parallel architectures.

Prerequisites

ECE 2170 and ECE 2172 and ECE 2173

Prerequisite Courses
Corequisites

ECE 3171

Corequisite Courses
Last Offered
Fall 2025, Fall 2024