The design of a computer system. It sets the standard for ... Both CISC and RISC architectures are widely used. See RISC. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...

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 ...

Case studies. REQUIRED TEXT: None RECOMMENDED TEXT: J. Hennessy and D. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach , Morgan Kaufmann, 3 rd edition, 2003. Research, survey, and case study ...

A computer architecture in which the program's instructions ... because each has its own address bus. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.