Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan 573201 Lesson Plan Even Semester 2011 -12 Name of the Department Name

of the Teacher Course Title Semester Objective of Teaching : : : : : Computer Science & Engineering Smt Uma B Advanced Computer Architecture CS801 (4-0-0) VIII Sem BE CSE To acquire fair knowledge of techniques used in computer to improve its performance. This course throws light on working of pipeline, branch prediction, instruction level & thread level parallelism also memory hierarchy. Methodology of Teaching : Regular lectures, Question and Answer Session, Presentations by students, Quiz

Text Books:

1. John L. Hennessey and David A. Patterson: Computer Architecture, A Quantitative Approach, 4th Edition, Elsevier, 2007.
Reference Books:

1. Kai Hwang: Advanced Computer Architecture Parallelism, Scalability, Programability, Tata Mc Grawhill, 2003. 2. David E. Culler, Jaswinder Pal Singh, Anoop Gupta: Parallel Computer Architecture, A Hardware / Software Approach, Morgan Kaufman, 1999.

Lecture 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Topics(Plan for 6 Hrs) Fundamentals Of Computer Design : Introduction; Classes of computers; Defining computer architecture; Trends in Technology, power in Integrated Circuits and cost; Dependability; Measuring, reporting and summarizing Performance; Quantitative Principles of computer design.

Pipeline : Introduction; Pipeline hazards; Implementation of pipeline; What makes pipelining hard to implement?

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Instruction Level Parallelism 1 ILP: Concepts and challenges; Basic Compiler Techniques for exposing ILP; Reducing Branch costs with prediction; Overcoming Data hazards with Dynamic scheduling;.

Instruction Level Parallelism 2: Hardware-based speculation, Exploiting ILP using multiple issue and static scheduling; Exploiting ILP using dynamic scheduling, multiple issue and speculation; Advanced Techniques for instruction delivery and Speculation; The Intel Pentium 4 as example.

Review of Memory Hierarchy Introduction ; Cache performance; Cache Optimizations, Virtual memory.

Memory Hierarchy design : Introduction; Advanced optimizations of Cache performance; Memory technology and optimizations; Protection: Virtual memory and virtual machines.

Hardware and Software for VLIW and EPIC-1 :Introduction: Exploiting Instruction-Level Parallelism Statically; Detecting and Enhancing Loop-Level Parallelism; Scheduling and Structuring Code for Parallelism; Hardware Support for Exposing Parallelism: Predicted Instructions

Hardware and Software for VLIW and EPIC - : Hardware Support for Compiler Speculation; The Intel IA-64 Architecture and Itanium Processor; Conclusions Multiprocessors and Thread Level Parallelism : Introduction; Symmetric sharedmemory architectures; Performance of symmetric sharedmemory multiprocessors;

Multiprocessors and Thread Level Parallelism -2 : Distributed shared memory and directory-based coherence; Basics of synchronization; Models of Memory Consistency

Signature of the Tutor

Signature of HOD