Advanced Architectures and Algorithms - COMP4211


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: School of Computer Science and Engineering
	Course Outline: www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs4211
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: COMP9211.
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

This course builds on an understanding of COMP3211/9211 Computer Architecture to allow advanced features of current general purpose and embedded processors to be appreciated. Related research themes in computer architecture such as multiple issue, instruction level parallelism, dataflow, multiprocessing and multithreading are exposed. The course develops research and presentation skills through readings, presentations, and project work.