CSEE W4824

• Introduction; Design Fundamentals - Cost and Performance.
• Instruction Set Principles: overview and case studies (MIPS vs. 8086).
• Pipelining: review of basic concepts; hazards.
• Pipelining: multi-cycle operations; implementation issues.
• Instruction-Level Parallelism: scoreboarding; Tomasulo's algorithm.
• Instruction-Level Parallelism: branch prediction; speculation;
• Instruction-Level Parallelism: VLIWs.
• Embedded processors.
• Memory-Hierarchy Design.
• Multiprocessors and Thread-Level Parallelism.
• Multiprocessors and Thread-Level Parallelism.
• I/O Systems and Interconnect.
• Towards the Next-Generation of Computer Architectures.