| Course Code | CS 341 |
| Course Name | Computer Architecture Lab |
| Offered to | UG |
| Pre-requisites | NIl |
| Lecture | 0 |
| Tutorial | 0 |
| Practical | 3 |
| Credit | 3 |
| Reference | Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface?, 3rd/4th edition, David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, Elsevier (Restricted South Asia Edition). Notes from other computer architecture courses |
| Description | Computer organization, von Neumann arch. Instruction set design Measuring performance, Amdahl`s law, CPI Datapath and control path Pipelining, hazards Memory hierarchy, cache design, cache performance Some queuing theory (if time permits) Disk storage RAID Error correction codes, Hamming codes I/O Buses Multiprocessors (if time permits) |