Oct 23, 2026  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 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