CS252 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE, David Patterson, UC Berkeley

Topics covered include: cost and performance; integrated circuits 
and performance evaluation; instruction set architecture; basics 
of pipelined execution; instruction level parallelism; superscalar 
VLIW, branch prediction; advanced memory hierarchy; advanced cashe, 
TLB and virtual memory; storage systems; benchmarks, caching, disk 
arrays; interconnections; MPP networks, local area networks and
wide area network and shared address multiprocessors. The course
will also include guest lectures.

Students Level: UPPER DIVISION; Running time: CIRCA 40 hours.
2nd Edition, January 1995