Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Advanced processor structures: CISC/RISC architectures, pipeline structure, array processors, interleaved memory. Floating point computer arithmetic and algorithms. Input-output organization: data transfer methods, interrupts and direct memory access. Memory hierarchy, virtual memory, cache memory, memory management hardware. Multiprocessor architectures: interconnection structure, bus arbitrations, cache coherence

To teach how to choose and design an instruction set. To teach basic techniques of pipelining. To teach I/O subsystem including nested interrupts and DMA To teach hierarchical memory subsystems including disk subsystem, processor caches, virtual memory, memory error correction. To teach multiprocessing and concurrency concepts.