CSE 442 — COMPUTER SYSTEM ORGANIZATION AND DESIGN (CUR-061)

Summary 🟡 ✓

• Resource type: course
• Owner Unit: Cyber-Physical Systems Engineering
• College/School: Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media
• Curriculum section: Engineering / Computer Science / CDM
• Catalog: CSE 442
• Last Verified: 2026-05-28

Course access

• Level: yellow (Prerequisites Required)
• Rationale: Catalog lists formal prerequisites, co-requisites, or program-status requirements.
• Prerequisites:
• CSC 407 is a prerequisite

Verification

• Status: verified_catalog_course (✓)
• Rationale: Appears in the current official DePaul course catalog search.
• Source URL: catalog.depaul.edu/course-descriptions/cse
• Last verified: 2026-05-28

Catalog description

Overview of the design of hardware elements of computer systems. Topics include instruction set design, processor micro-architecture and pipelining, cache and virtual memory organizations, protection and sharing, I/O and interrupts, and multithreaded architectures, and embedded systems. CSC 407 is a prerequisite for this class.

Hardware relevance

Hands-on labs, fabrication, instrumentation, or physical production technology described in the official catalog course description.

Notes

Catalog course key: CSE 442. Course offerings and schedules are not verified in this pass.