Computer Architecture II

Overview

Introduction and Basics - Fundamental Concepts and ISA - ISA Tradeoffs - More ISA Tradeoffs - ISA Wrap-Up, Single-Cycle- Multi-Cycle Microarchitecture - Microprogramming - Pipelining - Data Dependence Handling - Control Dependence Handling - Branch Prediction - Predication and Exceptions - State Maintenance & Recovery - Out-of-Order Execution - Data Flow and SIMD - Virtual Memory - SIMD and GPUs - GPUs, VLIW, Systolic Arrays - Static Instruction Scheduling - Memory Hierarchy - Caches - Advanced Caches - Main Memory and DRAM Basics - Memory Controllers & Scheduling - Memory Scheduling - Runahead Execution - Prefetching - Advanced Prefetching - Multiprocessors - Consistency & Coherence - Interconnects - Heterogeneous Multi-Core - Emerging Memory Tech