CMPSC 254: ADV COMP ARCH
University of California, Santa Barbara
Advanced instruction set architectures, pipelining, dynamic scheduling, branch prediction, superscalar issue, out-of-order execution, memory-hierarchy design, advanced cache architectures and prefetching. Several real designs are dissected and simulators are developed for performing quantitative evaluations of design decisions.
Average GPA: 3.92
Grade distribution records: 258 students across 10 terms.
Grade distribution
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 22 | 8.5% |
| A | 189 | 73.3% |
| A- | 35 | 13.6% |
| B+ | 9 | 3.5% |
| B | 2 | 0.8% |
| D | 1 | 0.4% |
Based on 258 student grade records across 10 terms and 2 professors.
Instructors
- Sherwood T P 135 students, Average GPA 3.94
- Balkind J M 123 students, Average GPA 3.89