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 ...

Case studies. REQUIRED TEXT: None RECOMMENDED TEXT: J. Hennessy and D. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach , Morgan Kaufmann, 3 rd edition, 2003. Research, survey, and case study ...

In computer science and engineering, computer architecture is the art that specifies the relations and parts of a computer system. In the architecture of buildings, this art is normally visual ...

The design of a computer system. It sets the standard for all devices that connect to it and all the software that runs on it. It is based on the type of programs that will run (business ...

Following the debut of the Intel Panther Lake chip later in 2025, Intel will launch Nova Lake to begin shipping in 2026.

Hennessy and David A. Patterson described the present as the “golden age of computer architecture”. Compared to the early days of MS-DOS, when designing user- and kernel-space interactions was ...

The Desktop Modular PC design appears from Intel's diagram to use a midplane that has the Platform Controller Hub (PCH) ...

In a nutshell: Intel has pulled back the curtain on its plans for its next-generation PC processors, codenamed "Nova Lake," set to launch in 2026. The revelations came during the chipmaker's quarterly ...

For my latest publications, please see my group's publications page. If you are interested in learning about Computer Architecture, please enroll in my Massively Open Online Course in Computer ...

Computer network architects design, build and maintain a variety of data communication networks, from expansive cloud infrastructures to smaller intranets. Along with a host of technical skills ...