Computer Architecture

The objective of this course is to provide you with the basic concepts and principles in computer architecture so that you have in-depth understanding of computer system organizations and computer system designs. Through the course, you are also expected to become conversant with accompanying terminology in computer architecture. This will be helpful for you to read and understand technical articles or promotional brochures that describe new computer architectures and appreciate the design issues and tradeoffs of that architecture. This course will introduce the current trends in computer architecture so that you have some sense of the future directions of computational machines. You will also learn how to quantitatively analyze, compare, and evaluate the performance of computer systems.