CS 433: Computer System Organization, Spring 2021

Instructor Chris Fletcher cwfletch@illinois.edu
Location Virtual!
Lecture Times
 Tuesday and Thursday, 2:00pm-3:15pm
Office Virtual!
Office Hours
 Fridays 3pm-4pm or by appointment

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This course teaches advanced computer architecture and systems design. Topics include: fundamental metrics in computer architecture, instruction level parallelism, memory hierarchy, multiprocessors, data parallel architectures, domain-specific architectures.

Syllabus [pdf]

The information in the syllabus and on this course website is subject to change. Major changes will be recorded in the announcements below (please check frequently).

Announcements

Calendar + lecture slides [google sheet]

Piazza Newsgroup [link]

Texts, books, resources

  • Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, sixth edition; by Patterson and Hennessy
    The above information is subject to change.