May 09, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

CST 432 - Computer Systems Architecture


When Offered: F, SS

3 Credit(s)
3 Lecture Hour(s)
0 Lab Hour(s)

This course introduces the organization and design philosophy of computer systems with respect to resource management, throughput, and operating system interaction. Topics include instruction sets, registers, data types, memory management and hierarchy, virtual memory, cache, storage management, vector and multi-processing, CPU design, arithmetic algorithms, I/O communication techniques, RISC architectures, and pipelining.

Prerequisite(s): CST 213