Advanced Architecture and Parallel Processing

Introduction to Computer Architecture by UC

Computer Architecture studies the techniques used to design and implement the principle components of a computer system and the mechanisms that can be used to quantitatively evaluate the expected performance capabilities of the different design possibilities. This page covers the following topics related to Computer Architecture : Introduction, Historical Overview, Fundamentals of Computer Design, Optimizations of the Memory Hierarchy,Instruction Level Parallelism , Data Parallelism, Thread-Level Parallelism, Warehouse Computing, Domain Specific Architecture.

Author(s): University of Cincinnati

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Introduction to Computer Architecture Lecture Notes

Computer architecture is the science and art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create a computer that meets functional, performance and cost goals. In this note, students will learn how to completely design a correct single processor computer, including processor datapath, processor control, memory systems, and I/O. Topics covered includes: Performance, Instructions, Arithmetic, Datapath, Control, Exceptions, Pipelining, Caches, Memory and VM, Arithmetic, Multiprocessors.

Author(s): David A. Wood and T. A. Ramkumar Ravikumar

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Architecture of High Performance Computers

This note will give an introduction to designing and programming high performance processors. Topics covered includes: Branch Prediction, renaming, precise interrupts, Register Renaming, Wakeup, Bypass, Broadcast, Load-Store Queue, Commit, Recovery from speculation: RRF and RRAT, SRAM vs CAM based checkpoint, ROB based OOO processor design Little's Law, Non-Selective and Deferred Selective Replay, SRAM and DRAM Cells, CAM Cells, Pentium Trace Cache, Date Prefetching, Cache Design with Cacti, NUCA Caches, Routing and Flow Control, Hardware Security, Flow Control, Coherence and Consistency, Coherence Protocols, Directory Coherence and Atomic Primitives, Memory Consistency Models.

Author(s): Dr. Smruti R. Sarangi

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Computer Architecture Lectures

This note explains the follolwing topics: Computers, Levels of Abstraction and Architecture, Performance Concepts and Performance Evaluation, Instruction Set Architecture, ALU Design, Designing a Single Cycle Datapath, Designing Single Cycle Control, Designing a Multiple Cycle Processor , Designing a Multiple Cycle Controller, Designing a Pipeline Processor, Cache Memory, Memory Systems , Virtual Memory.

Author(s): Prof. Alok N. Choudhary

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Computer Architecture by University of Oslo

This note covers the following topics: Basics of computer architecture, Introduction to Digital Electronics, Binary Numbers, Boolean Algebra, Combinational Logic Circuits, Sequential Logic Circuits, Von Neumann Architecture, Optimizing Hardware Performance, Low-level programming, Programming in C, Character encodings, Assembly programming.

Author(s): Philipp Hafliger, Dag Langmyhr and Omid Mirmotahari

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Computer System Architecture Lecture Notes

This note contains the study of the evolution of computer architecture and the factors influencing the design of hardware and software elements of computer systems. Topics covered includes: instruction set design, processor micro-architecture and pipelining, cache and virtual memory organizations, protection and sharing, I/O and interrupts, in-order and out-of-order superscalar architectures, VLIW machines, vector supercomputers, multithreaded architectures, symmetric multiprocessors, and parallel computers.

Author(s): Dr. Joel Emer, Prof. Krste Asanovic and Prof. Arvin

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Computer Systems Architecture Handouts and Lecture Notes

This lecture note explains the basic principles and current practices of computer architectures and organizations, including instruction set design, pipelining, caching, virtual memory, and parallelism.

Author(s): Prof. Shantanu Dutt

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Capability Based Computer Systems

This book is an introduction, a survey, a history,and an evaluation of capability-and object-based computer systems.This book explains the following topics: Capability- and Object-Based System Concepts, Early Descriptor Architectures, Early Capability Architectures, The Plessey System, The Cambridge CAP Computer, The Hydra System, The StarOS System, The IBM System/38, The Intel iAPX 432 and Issues in Capability-Based Architectures.

Author(s): Henry M. Levy

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