INFR 2810U – Computer Architecture

Computer systems generation: main-frame, mid-range, microcomputers; peripherals and interfaces; bus design; input/output systems and technologies; central processing units: arithmetic logic and control units; semiconductor memory (RAM and ROM), magnetic disks and tapes, optical disks; assembly and high-level programming language; integer and floating point arithmetic, pipelining and parallelism; CISC vs. RISC.
Credit hours: 3
Lecture hours: 3
Tutorial hours: 1.5
Prerequisite(s): [{INFR 1010U or INFR 1020U} or {(concurrent INFR 1010U or concurrent INFR 1020U) and BIT Bridge} and (INFR 1100U or INFR 1101U)]
Credit restriction(s): CSCI 2050U, ELEE 3450U