ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Catalog description

We will discuss various concepts behind the designs of modern microprocessors. In particular, the topics that will be covered in the course are: performance simulators and evaluation, static and dynamic scheduling, parallelism, speculative execution, memory hierarchy and organization, multi-processing. Additional advanced topics will include domain-specific architectures, abstract-level microprocessor security, and other cutting-edge topics. Students will also do a paper study in a research topic. The expected background of students is knowledge of instruction set architecture and in-order pipelines. This course is cross-listed with ELEC4725 . (3 credits)