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Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in electrical and computer engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or departmental course information for topics and prerequisites. Course Information: 0 to 4 undergraduate hours. 0 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary.

Modern computer architecture and system design, including instruction-level parallelism, pipelining, out-of-order execution, branch prediction, memory hierarchies, multiprocessor systems, interconnects, I/O, and performance and reliability analysis. The course examines how architectural and microarchitectural techniques interact with operating systems, compilers, and emerging workloads, including AI and data-intensive applications. Students complete an open-ended final project exploring a topic in processor or computer systems design.