ELEC 501: PROCESSOR MICROARCHITECTURE
Spring 2027 · Section 001 · CRN 26676
The course covers the design and implementation of micro-architectural components of modern CPU and memory systems. Topics covered include static and dynamic pipelines, out-of-order execution, instruction speculation, reorder buffers, static and dynamic branch prediction, multi-threaded, VLIW, and vector processors, cache memory organization and implementation, and an introduction to multiprocessor cache coherence and virtual memory. The course will require Verilog implementations of several micro-architectural components and their integration into a working CPU. Additional course work required beyond the undergraduate course requirement. Cross-list: ELEC 428. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ELEC 501 if student has credit for ELEC 428.
- Credits
- 3
- Instructors
- Peter Varman