Computer Architecture

Syllabus:

WEEK 1

Introduction, Instruction Set Architecture, and Microcode

• 4 hours to complete

This lecture will give you a broad overview of the course, as well as the description of architecture, micro-architecture and instruction set architectures.

Pipelining Review

• 3 hours to complete

This lecture covers the basic concept of pipeline and two different types of hazards.

WEEK 2

Cache Review

• 3 hours to complete

This lecture covers control hazards and the motivation for caches.

Superscalar 1

• 3 hours to complete

This lecture covers cache characteristics and basic superscalar architecture.

WEEK 3

Superscalar 2 & Exceptions

• 2 hours to complete

This lecture covers the common issues for superscalar architecture.

Superscalar 3

• 2 hours to complete

This lecture covers different kinds of architectures for out-of-order processors.

WEEK 4

Superscalar 4

• 1 hour to complete

This lecture covers the common methods used to improve the performance of out-of-order processors including register renaming and memory disambiguation.

VLIW 1

• 2 hours to complete

This lecture covers the basic concept of very long instruction word (VLIW) processors.

WEEK 5

VLIW2

• 3 hours to complete

This lecture covers the common methods used to improve VLIW performance.

Branch Prediction

• 2 hours to complete

This lecture covers the motivation and implementation of branch predictors.

WEEK 6

Advanced Caches 1

• 3 hours to complete

This lecture covers the advanced mechanisms used to improve cache performance.

Advanced Caches 2

• 2 hours to complete

This lecture covers more advanced mechanisms used to improve cache performance.

WEEK 7

Memory Protection

• 3 hours to complete

This lecture covers memory management and protection.

Vector Processors and GPUs

• 3 hours to complete

This lecture covers the vector processor and optimizations for vector processors.

WEEK 8

Multithreading

• 2 hours to complete

This lecture covers different types of multithreading.

Parallel Programming 1

• 1 hour to complete

This lecture covers the concepts of parallelism, consistency models, and basic parallel programming techniques.

WEEK 9

Parallel Programming 2

• 1 hour to complete

This lecture covers the solutions for the consistency problem in parallel programming.

Small Multiprocessors

• 2 hours to complete

This lecture covers the implementation of small multiprocessors.

WEEK 10

Multiprocessor Interconnect 1

• 3 hours to complete

This lecture covers the design of interconnects for a multiprocessor.

Multiprocessor Interconnect 2

• 3 hours to complete

This lecture covers the design of interconnects for multiprocessor and network topology.

WEEK 11: Large Multiprocessors (Directory Protocols)

• 3 hours to complete

This lecture covers the motivation and implementation of directory protocol used for coherence on large multiprocessors.

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