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CMPUT 429: Computer Systems and Architecture

At a glance

  • Units: 3
  • Prerequisites: CMPUT 201 or 275; and one of CMPUT 229, E E 380, or ECE 212.
  • Offered: Scheduled: Winter 2027

A discussion of computer system design concepts with stress on modern ideas that have shaped the high-performance architecture of contemporary systems. Instruction sets, pipelining, instruction-level parallelism, register reuse, branch prediction, CPU control, cache- coherence, accelerators, and related concepts. Memory technologies, caches, I/O, high-performance networks. Credit may be obtained in only one of CMPUT 429, CMPE 382, or ECE 311.

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