BLG 603E - Enhanced Processor Architec.

Course Objectives

Understand advanced processor architectures.
Discuss critical elements of parallel architectures and parallel computing.
Explore current trends and developments in processor architecture.

Course Description

Performance evaluation and analysis. Memory technologies and optimizations. Cache systems and cache performance optimizations. Memory system design. Memory system performance analysis. Virtual memories and short-cut buffers. Instruction-level parallelism. Use of compiler techniques for instruction-level parallelism. Branch prediction. Data dependency and dynamic instruction ordering methods. Hardware-based speculation techniques. Superpipelined processors and superscalar processors. Data parallelism. Vector architectures. Graphics processing units and general-purpose computing in graphics processing units. Task parallelism. Multiprocessor systems. Cache management systems. Synchronization. Memory coherence. Interconnect architectures in multiprocessor systems.