1. Advanced Computer Architecture 5MD00 / 5Z033 Overview Henk Corporaal www.ics.ele.tue.nl/~heco/courses/aca h.corporaal@tue.nl TUEindhoven 2009

2. ACA H.Corporaal2 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 –etc.

3. ACA H.Corporaal3 Also Study recent articles Perform Lab assignment on Computer Architecture –Simple Scalar processor assignment –Multi-processor assignment

4. ACA H.Corporaal4 Organization Credits: –5MD00: 3 credit points (ECTS) –5Z033:4 credit points Weekly class meetings, this quarter, in 13.03 –Tuesday: 15.45 – 17.30 –Thursday: 13.45 – 15.30 (roughly every other week) Labs: in your own time Student literature research of TOP recent conferences –last week Oral Examination in January 2010

5. ACA H.Corporaal5 Material Book: –Computer Architecture, A quantitative approach, 4 rd edition, by Hennessy and Patterson, Handouts and slides; see course web site: www.ics.ele.tue.nl/~heco/courses/aca

6. ACA H.Corporaal6 Schedule 2009 - preliminary Nov 10Ch 1Introduction Nov 13App AMIPS & pipelining (crash course) Nov 17App BInstruction set design + other architectures Nov 24 Ch 2ILP / Superscalar architecture concepts Nov 26Ch 3 (partly)ILP software techniques Dec 1Ch 4Multi-processors Dec 8Multi-processors Dec 10App EInterconnection networks Dec 15 Ch 5Memory hierarchy Jan 5 Memory coherency and consistency Jan 12Student presentations Jan 14 reserved -- finalizing lab work – Exams in week 2 or 3 of 2010

7. ACA H.Corporaal7 ACA summary The miniMIPS processor you built What you’ll understand after taking 5MD00 / 5Z033 Also, the technology behind chip-scale multiprocessors