Informações sobre o curso: In this course, you will learn to design the computer architecture of complex modern microprocessors.
Desenvolvido por: Universidade de Princeton
Ministrado por: David Wentzlaff , Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering
| Nível | Advanced |
| Idioma | English |
| Como ser aprovado | Seja aprovado em todas as tarefas para concluir o curso. |
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Programa
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 vídeos, 2 leituras
- Vídeo: Course Introduction
- 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 vídeos, 1 leitura
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: Microcoded Microarchitecture
- Vídeo: Pipeline Basics
- Vídeo: Structural Hazard
- Vídeo: Data Hazards
SEMANA 2
Cache Review
This lecture covers control hazards and the motivation for caches.
5 vídeos, 1 leitura
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: Control Hazards, Jumps
- 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 vídeos, 1 leitura
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: Classifying Caches
- 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 vídeos, 1 leitura
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: Baseline Superscalar and Alignment
- 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 vídeos, 2 leituras
- Vídeo: Review of Out-of-Order Processors
- 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 vídeos
- Vídeo: Speculation and Branch
- 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 vídeos, 3 leituras
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: Limits of Out-of-Order Design Complexity
- 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 vídeos, 1 leitura
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: Scheduling Model Review
- Vídeo: Review of Predication
- Vídeo: Predication Implementation
- Vídeo: Speculation Execution
- Vídeo: Dynamic Events and Clustered VLIWs
- Vídeo: Case Study: IA-64/Itanium
Nota atribuída: Midterm
Branch Prediction
This lecture covers the motivation and implementation of branch predictors.
5 vídeos, 1 leitura
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: Branch Cost Motivation
- 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 vídeos, 1 leitura
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: Basic Cache Optimizations
- 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 vídeos, 2 leituras
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: Multiporting and Banking
- 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 vídeos, 2 leituras
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: Memory Management Introduction
- 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 vídeos, 1 leitura
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: Address Translation Review
- 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 vídeos, 1 leitura
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: Reduction, Scatter/Gather, and the Cray 1
- 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 vídeos, 1 leitura
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: SMT Implementation
- 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 vídeos
- Vídeo: Sequential Consistency Review
- 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 vídeos, 2 leituras
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: Locking Review
- 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 vídeos, 2 leituras
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: More Cache Coherence Protocols
- 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 vídeos, 1 leitura
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: Networking Review
- 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 vídeos, 2 leituras
- Reading: Readings
- Vídeo: Credit Based Flow Control
- Vídeo: Deadlock
- Vídeo: False Sharing
- Vídeo: Introduction to Directory Coherence
- Vídeo: Implementation
- Vídeo: Scalability of Directory Coherence
- Reading: Problem Set 5 Solutions
Nota atribuída: Final Exam
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Just great!
NICE
Thank you, you course is greate.
But:
1) Difficult to study from a cellar phone.
2) I would choose another assembler
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The course presents advanced material, not easily found elsewhere. Labs would have definitely facilitated the learning in this case and I hope they will be added in the future.