CMPUT 499 - Topics in Computing Science

3 units (fi 6)(VAR, VARIABLE)

This topics course is designed for a one on one individual study course between a student and an instructor. Prerequisites are determined by the instructor in the course outline. See Note (3) above.

CMPUT 605 - Topics in Computing Science

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

CMPUT 229 - Computer Organization and Architecture I

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-3)

Number representation, computer architecture and organization, instruction-set architecture, assembly-level programming, procedures, stack frames, memory access through pointers, exception handling, computer arithmetic, floating-point representation, datapath, control logic, pipelining, memory hierarchy, virtual memory. Prerequisite: CMPUT 201 or 275. Credit may be obtained in only one of CMPUT 229, E E 380 or ECE 212.

CMPUT 429 - Computer Systems and Architecture

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-3)

A discussion of computer system design concepts with stress on modern ideas that have shaped the high-performance architecture of contemporary systems. Instruction sets, pipelining, instruction-level parallelism, register reuse, branch prediction, CPU control, cache- coherence, accelerators, and related concepts. Memory technologies, caches, I/O, high-performance networks. Prerequisites: CMPUT 201 or 275; and one of CMPUT 229, E E 380, or ECE 212. Credit may be obtained in only one of CMPUT 429, CMPE 382, or ECE 311.

CMPUT 530 - Topics in Computing Science

3 units (fi 6)(VAR, VARIABLE)