Mar 12, 2026  
2025-2026 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate/Graduate Catalog

COMP 590 - Computer Architecture

(3 credits)
Prerequisite: Admission to the MS program in Computer Science or consent of instructor
This course is an introduction to the internal structure of digital computers including design of gates, flip-fops, registers and memories to perform operations on numerical and other data represented in binary form; computer system analysis and design; organizational dependence on computations to be performed; and theoretical aspects of parallel and pipeline computation. Offered periodically.