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 ====== Computer Architecture  ======
-===== Description  =====
+====== Description  ======
 This course presents the core concepts of computer architecture and
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 ====== Learning outcomes for the course: ======
+Upon the completion of this course, the student should be able to
-▪ Design cache, memory hierarchy, and virtual memory using different
-techniques to improve cost/performance ratio.
+  - Design cache, memory hierarchy, and virtual memory using different techniques to improve cost/performance ratio.
-▪ Demonstrate how dynamic scheduling and speculative execution
+  - Demonstrate how dynamic scheduling and speculative execution can improve the system performance and explain how it is implemented in modern processors.
-can improve the system performance and explain how it is
+  - Evaluate different design alternatives and make quantitative/qualitative argument for one design over the other.
-implemented in modern processors.
+  - Identity the different types of parallelism (data, instruction, thread, transaction) for a given application.
-▪ Evaluate different design alternatives and make
+  - Compare and evaluate different techniques (such as multithreading, multicore, or vector) to improve CPU performance.
-quantitative/qualitative argument for one design over the other.
-▪ Identity the different types of parallelism (data, instruction, thread,
-transaction) for a given application.
-▪ Compare and evaluate different techniques (such as multithreading,
-multicore, or vector) to improve CPU performance.
 ===== Lecture Times =====