ANNA University Advanced Computer Architecture Notes

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 Syllabus :

                   ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

UNIT I INSTRUCTION LEVEL PARALLELISM 9
ILP – Concepts and challenges – Hardware and software approaches –Dynamic
scheduling – Speculation - Compiler techniques for exposing ILP – Branch prediction.


UNIT II MULTIPLE ISSUE PROCESSORS 9
VLIW & EPIC – Advanced compiler support – Hardware support for exposing parallelism – Hardware versus software speculation mechanisms – IA 64 and Itanium processors –Limits on ILP.


UNIT III MULTIPROCESSORS AND THREAD LEVEL PARALLELISM 9
Symmetric and distributed shared memory architectures – Performance issues –Synchronization – Models of memory consistency – Introduction to Multithreading.


UNIT IV MEMORY AND I/O 9
Cache performance – Reducing cache miss penalty and miss rate – Reducing hit time –Main memory and performance – Memory technology. Types of storage devices –Buses – RAID – Reliability, availability and dependability – I/O performance measures –Designing an I/O system.


UNIT V MULTI-CORE ARCHITECTURES 9
Software and hardware multithreading – SMT and CMP architectures – Design issues –Case studies – Intel Multi-core architecture – SUN CMP architecture - heterogenous multi-core processors – case study: IBM Cell Processor. 



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