SEMANA 1

Introduction, Instruction Set Architecture, and Microcode

This lecture will give you a broad overview of the course, as well as the description of architecture, micro-architecture and instruction set architectures.

8 videos, 2 lecturas

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Course Overview
Vídeo: Motivation
Vídeo: Course Content
Vídeo: Architecture and Microarchitecture
Vídeo: Machine Models
Vídeo: ISA Characteristics
Vídeo: Recap
Reading: Problem Set 1 & 1A

Pipelining Review

This lecture covers the basic concept of pipeline and two different types of hazards.

4 videos, 1 lectura

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Pipeline Basics
Vídeo: Structural Hazard
Vídeo: Data Hazards

SEMANA 2

Cache Review

This lecture covers control hazards and the motivation for caches.

5 videos, 1 lectura

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Control Hazards, Branch
Vídeo: Control Hazards, Others
Vídeo: Memory Technologies
Vídeo: Motivation for Caches

Superscalar 1

This lecture covers cache characteristics and basic superscalar architecture.

5 videos, 1 lectura

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Cache Performance
Vídeo: Superscalar 1
Vídeo: Basic Two-way In-order Superscalar
Vídeo: Fetch Logic and Alignment

SEMANA 3

Superscalar 2 & Exceptions

This lecture covers the common issues for superscalar architecture.

4 videos, 1 lectura

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Interrupts and Bypassing
Vídeo: Interrupts and Exceptions
Vídeo: Introduction to Out-of-Order Processors

Superscalar 3

This lecture covers different kinds of architectures for out-of-order processors.

5 videos, 2 lecturas

Vídeo: I2O2 Processors
Vídeo: I2O1 Processors
Vídeo: IO3 Processors
Vídeo: IO2I Processors
Reading: Problem Set 2
Reading: Problem Set 1 Solutions

SEMANA 4

Superscalar 4

This lecture covers the common methods used to improve the performance of out-of-order processors including register renaming and memory disambiguation.

5 videos

Vídeo: Register Renaming Introduction
Vídeo: Register Renaming with Pointers to IQ and ROB
Vídeo: Register Renaming with Values in IQ and ROB
Vídeo: Memory Disambiguation

VLIW 1

This lecture covers the basic concept of very long instruction word (VLIW) processors.

5 videos, 3 lecturas

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Introduction to VLIW
Vídeo: VLIW Compiler Optimizations
Vídeo: Classic VLIW Challenges
Vídeo: Introduction to Predication
Reading: Problem Set 3
Reading: Problem Set 2 Solutions

SEMANA 5

VLIW2

This lecture covers the common methods used to improve VLIW performance.

6 videos, 1 lectura

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Review of Predication
Vídeo: Predication Implementation
Vídeo: Speculation Execution
Vídeo: Dynamic Events and Clustered VLIWs
Vídeo: Case Study: IA-64/Itanium

Calificado: Midterm

Branch Prediction

This lecture covers the motivation and implementation of branch predictors.

5 videos, 1 lectura

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Branch Prediction Introduction
Vídeo: Static Outcome Prediction
Vídeo: Dynamic Outcome Prediction
Vídeo: Target Address Prediction

SEMANA 6

Advanced Caches 1

This lecture covers the advanced mechanisms used to improve cache performance.

6 videos, 1 lectura

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Cache Pipelining
Vídeo: Write Buffers
Vídeo: Multilevel Caches
Vídeo: Victim Caches
Vídeo: Prefetching

Advanced Caches 2

This lecture covers more advanced mechanisms used to improve cache performance.

4 videos, 2 lecturas

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Software Memory Optimizations
Vídeo: Non-blocking Caches
Vídeo: Critical Word First and Early Restart
Reading: Problem Set 3 Solutions

SEMANA 7

Memory Protection

This lecture covers memory management and protection.

5 videos, 2 lecturas

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Base and Bound Registers
Vídeo: Page Based Memory Systems
Vídeo: Translation and Protection
Vídeo: TLB Processing
Reading: Problem Set 4 & 4A

Vector Processors and GPUs

This lecture covers the vector processor and optimizations for vector processors.

6 videos, 1 lectura

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Cache and Memory Protection Interaction
Vídeo: Vector Processor Introduction
Vídeo: Vector Parallelism
Vídeo: Vector Hardware Optimizations
Vídeo: Vector Software and Compiler Optimizations

SEMANA 8

Multithreading

This lecture covers different types of multithreading.

6 videos, 1 lectura

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: SIMD
Vídeo: GPUs
Vídeo: Multithreading Motivation
Vídeo: Coarse-Grain Multithreading
Vídeo: Simultaneous Multithreading

Parallel Programming 1

This lecture covers the concepts of parallelism, consistency models, and basic parallel programming techniques.

4 videos, 1 lectura

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Introduction to Parallelism
Vídeo: Sequential Consistency
Vídeo: Introduction to Locks

SEMANA 9

Parallel Programming 2

This lecture covers the solutions for the consistency problem in parallel programming.

5 videos

Vídeo: Locks and Semaphores
Vídeo: Atomic Operations
Vídeo: Memory Fences
Vídeo: Dekker's Algorithm

Small Multiprocessors

This lecture covers the implementation of small multiprocessors.

5 videos, 2 lecturas

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Bus Implementation
Vídeo: Cache Coherence
Vídeo: Bus-Based Multiprocessors
Vídeo: Cache Coherence Protocols
Reading: Problem Set 4 Solutions

SEMANA 10

Multiprocessor Interconnect 1

This lecture covers the design of interconnects for a multiprocessor.

4 videos, 2 lecturas

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Introduction to Interconnection Networks
Vídeo: Message Passing
Vídeo: Interconnect Design
Reading: Problem Set 5 & 5A

Multiprocessor Interconnect 2

This lecture covers the design of interconnects for multiprocessor and network topology.

5 videos, 1 lectura

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Topology
Vídeo: Topology Parameters
Vídeo: Network Performance
Vídeo: Routing and Flow Control

SEMANA 11

Large Multiprocessors (Directory Protocols)

This lecture covers the motivation and implementation of directory protocol used for coherence on large multiproccesors.

6 videos, 2 lecturas

Reading: Readings
Vídeo: Deadlock
Vídeo: False Sharing
Vídeo: Introduction to Directory Coherence
Vídeo: Implementation
Vídeo: Scalability of Directory Coherence
Reading: Problem Set 5 Solutions

Calificado: Final Exam

Nivel	Avanzado
Idioma	English
Cómo aprobar	Aprueba todas las tareas calificadas para completar el curso.
Calificaciones del usuario	4.8 estrellas Calificación promedio del usuario 4.8Ve los que los estudiantes dijeron

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