CS 343 - Advanced Computer Organization and Design with Laboratory

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Wellesley College

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NOT OFFERED IN 2009-10. OFFERED IN 2010-11. This course explores advanced computer organization and design. The interaction of hardware and software at a variety of levels is studied to provide a framework for how to design a computer. These ideas are also applied to understand how a computer system works and why it performs as it does. Examples and measurements based on commercial systems are used to create realistic design experiences. In addition, RISC architectures for current desktop, server, and embedded computers will also be surveyed. Integral to the course is a three-hour required weekly laboratory. In the laboratory, students write behavioral models of computer components using VHDL, a commercial computer design language. Most significantly, students will engage in an intensive, semester-long project in which they design a simple 16-bit RISC-style microprocessor. This includes the design of an instruction interpre-ter, a register file, a single-cycle, and a multi-cycle CPU. The lectures complement the labs. Alternate year course. Prerequisite: 240. Not open to students who have taken this course as a topic of CS 349. Distribution: Mathematical Modeling. This course satisfies the laboratory requirement. Semester: N/O. Offered in 2010-11. Unit: 1.25

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wellesley.edu

Phone Number:

(781) 283-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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