Overview of CISC/RISC microprocessors; performance metrics; instruction set design; processor and memory acceleration techniques; pipelining; scheduling; instruction level parallelism; memory hierarchies; multiprocessor structures; storage systems; interconnection networks. Three lectures, one tutorial, one lab every other week; first term Prerequisite(s): COMP ENG 3DJ4 or 3DR4 Antirequisite(s): COMP SCI 2CA3, SFWR ENG 3G03, 3GA3
