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2022-2023 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog 
    
 
  Aug 25, 2026
 
2022-2023 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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ECE 2166 - PARALLEL COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduction to fundamental and newly developing hardware and software topics in parallel computer architecture (PCA) including concepts, models, methods, metrics, systems, and applications. PCA has become one of the most challenging and important areas of ECE, and it is now a dominant theme throughout computer architecture, systems, and programming, from low-power embedded systems to high-end supercomputers, and featuring various forms of fixed-logic (e.g., CPU, DSP, GPU), reconfigurable-logic (e.g., FPGA), and hybrid (e.g., CPU+DSP, CPU+FPGA, CPU+GPU, CPU+FPGA+GPU) processing devices. Prerequisite: Completion ECE 2162 Computer Architecture, with B or better grade, or consent of professor
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Grad Letter Grade


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