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 ...

Basics of Memory Hierarchies: A Quick Review The increasing size and thus importance of this gap led to the migration of the basics of memory hierarchy into undergraduate courses in computer ...

Evaluation methodology/metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level parallelism, prediction-based techniques, alternative architectures (VLIW, Vector and SIMD), ...