Advanced Computer Architecture

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In this course in modern computer architecture, students will study advanced techniques for extracting instruction-level parallelism from single-threaded programs. The in-order superscalar execution model will be introduced, and then extended to include the out-of-order execution model in two forms - Tomasulo's algorithm and the MIPS R10k architecture. Students will be introduced to branch prediction and prefetching as mechanisms for alleviating bottlenecks in all processor models. Prerequisite: CS 370 . Offered Occasionally.