Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

Metrics: performance, cost and power. Week 2: Instruction set architecture: implications and interaction with compilers. Week 3: Advanced Pipelining and introduction to instruction-level parallelism.

Morgan State University (MSU) recently received an Apple Innovation Grant, designed to support engineering schools as they develop their silicon and hardware technologies. The New Silicon Initiative ...