1. Advanced Computer Architecture 5MD00 / 5Z033 Overview
Henk Corporaal
TUEindhoven
2010

2. ACA summary The miniMIPS processor you built
What you’ll understand after taking 5MD00 / 5Z033
Also, the technology behind chip-scale multiprocessors
Photo is of an Intel Conroe (Core 2 Duo Desktop processor). Photo taken from Intel web site.
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3. Course goals Learn advanced computer architecture concepts like:
ILP and Multi-issue architectures
O-O-O
Correlating branch prediction; Value prediction
Advanced memory hierarchy speedup methods
etc.
Learn multi-processor architecture concepts like:
Multi-threading
Topologies
Synchronization
Coherence and Consistency
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4. Also Study recent articles
Perform two lab assignments on Computer Architecture
Simple Scalar processor assignment
Multi-processor assignment
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5. Organization Credits: Weekly class meetings, this quarter in Pt 2.19
5MD00: 3 credit points (ECTS)
5Z033: 4 credit points
Weekly class meetings, this quarter in Pt 2.19
Monday: – (roughly every other week)
Thursday: – 12.30
Labs: in your own time
Student literature research of TOP recent conferences
last week
Oral Examination in January 2011
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6. Material
Book:
Computer Architecture, A quantitative approach, 4rd edition, by Hennessy and Patterson,
Handouts and slides; see course web site:
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7. Schedule 2010 - preliminary
1 Nov 8 Ch 1 Introduction
2 Nov 11 App A MIPS & pipelining (crash course)
3 Nov 18 App B Instruction set design +
other architectures
4 Nov 22 Ch 2 ILP / Superscalar architecture concepts
5 Nov 27 Ch 3 (partly) ILP software techniques
6 Dec 2 Ch 4 Simultaneous multi-threading & Multi-processors 1
7 Dec 6 Multi-processors 2 + Roofline model
8 Dec 9 App E Interconnection networks
9 Dec 16 Ch 5 Memory hierarchy
10 Jan Memory coherency and consistency
11 Jan 6 Student presentations
12 Jan reserved
-- finalizing lab work –
Exams in week 3 or 4 of 2010
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