CSCI592

Analyze the designs of different instruction sets such as CISC and RISC.

Improve performance at instruction set, gate, register transfer, processor, memory, I/O and multiprocessor design levels.

Translate high level language constructs to both assembly and machine Languages.

Apply parallelism to improve performance.

Design and implement a simple instruction set with five or more operations using HDL.

Design controllers, forwarding, hazard detection and exception handling units for a pipeline processor.

Analyze research in computer architecture topics and present a summary.