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.
This PDF describes the following topics related to Computer
Architecture : Structure Of Computers, Generations Of A Computer, First Generation,
Classification Digital Computer Based On Size And Capability, Classification Based On Number Of Microprocessors, Functional Unit
, Basic Operational Concepts, The Von Neumann Architecture
, Bus Structures, Comparison Between RISC And CISC, Multiprocessors And
Multicomputer, Basic Computer Organization And Design, Algorithm.
The note will review
fundamental structures in modern microprocessor and computer system architecture
design. Topics covered includes: CPU Performance and Metrics, Instruction
Set Architecture, Implementation and Pipelining, Exceptions, Multi-cycle Ops,
Dynamic Scheduling, Dynamic Branch Prediction, Multiple Issue and
Speculation,Static Scheduling, Loop Unrolling, and Software Pipelining, Caches,
Main Memory, Virtual Memory, Multiprocessors, Multithreading and I/O.
This note covers the following
topics: Fundamentals of Computer Design, Basic Organization of a Computer,
Instruction Set Design, Addressing Modes, CPU Implementation, Interrupts, The
Memory Hierarchy, Virtual Memory.
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
This note will review
fundamental structures in modern microprocessor and computer system architecture
design. Topics covered includes: computer organization, instruction set design,
memory system design, pipelining, and other techniques to exploit parallelism.
It will also cover system level topics such as storage subsystems and basics of
multiprocessor systems.
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.
This note covers the following topics: History Of Compuers,
Machine Instruction Set, Instruction Pipelining, Processor Control Unit,
Microprogrammed Control Unit.
Author(s): Shri Vishnu Engineering
College For Women