Course Information

Course Name	Turkish	Gelişmiş İşlemci Mimarileri
	English	Advanced Processor Architectures
Course Code	BLG 603	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Ayşe Yılmazer Metin
Course Objectives		Understanding the advanced processor architectures. Discussing the challenges in parallel architectures and parallel computing. Study the advances and the trends in processor design.
Course Description		Performance evaluation and analysis. Memory technologies and optimizations. Caches and cache performance optimizations. Memory hierarchy design. Performance analysis of memory system. Virtual memory and TLBs. Instruction Level Parallelism. Branch prediction. Data hazards and dynamic scheduling. Hardware based speculation. Multiple issue and super scalar processors. Data parallelism. Vector architectures. Graphics Processing Units and GPGPU computing. Task parallelism. Multiprocessor systems. Cache coherence. Synchronization. Memory consistency. Interconnection in multiprocessor systems.
Course Outcomes
Pre-requisite(s)		Computer Architecture or equivalent
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