CS 25000: Computer Architecture

4 Credits

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Digital logic: transistors, gates, and combinatorial circuits; clocks; registers and register banks; arithmetic-logic units; data representation: big-endian and little-endian integers; ones and twos complement arithmetic; signed and unsigned values; Von-Neumann architecture and bottleneck; instruction sets; RISC and CISC designs; instruction pipelines and stalls; rearranging code; memory and address spaces; physical and virtual memory; interleaving; page tables; memory caches; bus architecture; polling and interrupts; DMA; device programming; assembly language; optimizations; parallelism; data pipelining.

Course CS 250 from Purdue University - West Lafayette.

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GPA: 3.11
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A: 34%
B: 44%
C: 17%
D: 4%
F: 2%

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