| Course Code | CS 305 |
| Course Name | Computer Architecture |
| Offered to | UG/PG |
| Pre-requisites | NIL |
| Lecture | 3 |
| Tutorial | 0 |
| Practical | 0 |
| Credit | 6 |
| Reference | Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface?, 3rd edition, David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, Elsevier (Restricted South Asia Edition), 2005. 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) |