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Main topics

1. Fundamentals of Computer Design                                                            (Chapter 1)

1.1   Performance

1.2   Principles of Computer Design

1.3   Performance and Cost

2. Pipelining and Instruction Set                                                            (Appendices A and B)

            2.1 Basic Pipeline

            2.2 Pipeline hazards: structural, data, and control.

            2.3 Pipeline implementation issues

            2.4 Case study: MIPS R4000 pipeline

            2.5 Instruction set architectures

            2.6 Operand storage, type and size

            2.7 Examples of instruction sets (MIPS and DLX)

3. Instruction-Level Parallelism and its Limitations                                      (Chapters 2 & 3)

            3.1 Instruction-level parallelism (ILP)

            3.2 Dynamic scheduling

            3.3 Branch Prediction

            3.4 Multiple instruction issue

            3.5 Thread level parallelism

            3.6 Case study: Intel Pentium 4

4. Multiprocessors (multi-core) and Thread Level Parallelism                         (Chapter 4)

            4.1 Symmetric shared-memory architectures

            4.2 Distributed shared memory

            4.3 Coherence and synchronization

            4.4 Case study: SUN  T1 multiprocessor        

5. Memory Hierarchy Design                                                                           (Chapter 5)

            5.1 Principle of locality

            5.2 Memory hierarchy and cache memory

            5.3 Cache performance optimizations

            5.4 Virtual Memory

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Grade

                  2 Partial Exams (25% each)                       50%

                  Project                                                      15%

                  Homework                                                 15%

                  Final Exam                                                20%

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