Computer Architecture A Synthesis

Computer Organization and Architecture Notes

This note covers computer organization and instructions, Arithmetic, The processor, Memory and input output Organization and advanced computer architecture.

Author(s): Mohamed Sathak A J College of Engineering

220 Pages

Computer Architecture A Synthesis

This PDF covers the following topics related to Computer Architecture : Introduction, Instruction Set Architecture, Computer Arithmetic, Control unit, Processor Design: S1 a simple CPU, Pipeline, Instruction Level Parallelism, Vector machines, Memory System Design, Magnetic Disk, Future architecture.

Author(s): Prabhas Chongstitvatana, Chulalongkorn University

267 Pages

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

NA Pages

Advance Computer Architecture Notes

This note covers the following topics: Principles of Processor Performance, RISC and CISC Architectures, Pipelining fundamentals, Pipeline Hazards, Superscalar Architecture, Super Pipelined Architecture, VLIW Architecture, Basic Multiprocessor Architecture, Flynn’s Classification, Array Processor, Vector Processors, Associative Processor, Systolic architecture, Hierarchical Memory Technology, Data Flow Computer Architecture, Static Data flow computer, Dynamic Data flow computer, Cluster computers, Distributed computing, Cloud computing.

Author(s): NA

118 Pages

Computer Architecture Lecture Notes by Seoul National University

This note covers the follolwing topics: MIPS Instruction Set Architecture, Basics of Datapath, Single-Cycle Implementation, Multi-cycle Implementation, Pipelined Data path and Control, Datapath and Control for Data and Control Hazards, Exception Handling and Advanced Pipelining, Memory Hierarchy, Virtual Memory, Storage and Other I/O , Multiprocessors, Arithmetic Circuits, Basic Computing Concept and Instruction Level Parallelism.

Author(s): Seoul National University

NA Pages

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

NA Pages

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

NA Pages

Introduction to Computer Architecture

This note will describe the basics of modern processor operation. Topics covered includes: computer system performance, instruction set architectures, pipelining, branch prediction, memory-hierarchy design, and a brief introduction to multiprocessor architecture issues.

Author(s): Steven Swanson

NA Pages