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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.