UNSW Handbook Course - Computer Architecture

Computer Architecture - COMP3211


	Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
	School: School of Computer Science and Engineering
	Contact: Diessel,Oliver Frank
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	Contact Hours per Week: 5
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: COMP2021 or ELEC2041; Excluded: COMP9211.
	Offered: Session Two
	Fee Band: 2

Description

Combinatorial and sequential circuit design; synchronisation, communication and arbitration; register transfer specification (Modal). Arithmetic Design Strategies. Memory Organisation: physical and virtual address space; operating system and compiler support; memory mapping and caching. Communications Organisation: shared memory, memory mapping; network systems. Processor Design: the instruction pipeline; hardwired and micro-programmed control; instruction sets; RISC and object-based processor organisation. Error Detection/Correction and Fault Tolerance; coding theory. Lab: major design project.

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