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Spring 2021
Mar 28, 2024
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CS 25000 - Computer Architecture
Credit Hours: 4.00. 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. Typically offered Fall Spring.
0.000 OR 4.000 Credit hours

Syllabus Available
Levels: Graduate, Professional, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Laboratory, Lecture
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Offered By: College of Science
Department: Computer Science

Course Attributes:
Lower Division

May be offered at any of the following campuses:     
      West Lafayette

Learning Outcomes: 1. Students understand the function of basic hardware, including fundamentals of digital logic, processors, memory, and I/O.


Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Fields of Study (Major, Minor, or Concentration):
      Computer Science
      Computer Science Honors
      Data Science
      Data Science First Year
      Mathematics-Computer Science

Prerequisites:
Undergraduate level CS 18200 Minimum Grade of C and Undergraduate level CS 24000 Minimum Grade of C

Short Title: Computer Architecture

Course Configurations:

Configuration 1: 4.0 Credits
Schedule Type Weekly Contact Hours Instructional Credit Distribution
Lecture 3 3.0
Laboratory 2 1.0
Configuration 1.5: 4.0 Credits
Schedule Type Weekly Contact Hours Instructional Credit Distribution
Distance Learning 0 3.0
Laboratory 0 1.0
Configuration 2: 4.0 Credits
Schedule Type Weekly Contact Hours Instructional Credit Distribution
Distance Learning 0 4.0

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