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 leituras

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 leituras

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 leituras

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 leituras

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 leituras

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 leituras

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 leituras

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 leituras

Reading: Readings
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 videos, 1 leituras

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 leituras

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 leituras

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 leituras

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 leituras

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 leituras

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 leituras

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 leituras

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 leituras

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 leituras

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 leituras

Reading: Readings
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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