{"id":735,"date":"2021-10-14T04:28:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T04:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itgeeks.in\/home\/?p=735"},"modified":"2021-10-14T04:28:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T04:28:32","slug":"2k6-cs-804-advanced-computer-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itgeeks.in\/home\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"2K6 CS 804 : ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Module I (15 hours)<\/strong>
Fundamentals – task of a computer designer – trends in technology usage and cost – performance measurement – quantitative principles of computer design – instruction set architectures – classification – addressing and operations – encoding an instruction set – role of compilers – case study – the DLX architecture – pipelining – pipeline for DLX – pipeline hazards – data and control hazards – implementation difficulties – pipelining with multi-cycle operations
Module II (12 hours)<\/strong>
Instruction level parallelism – concepts and challenges – dynamic scheduling – dynamic hardware prediction – multiple issue of instructions – compiler and hardware support for ILP – vector processing – vector architecture – vector length and stride – compiler vectorization – enhancing vector performance
Module III (13 hours)<\/strong>
Memory hierarchy design – reducing cache misses and miss penalty, reducing hit time – main memory – virtual memory and its protection – case study – protection in the Intel Pentium – crosscutting issues – I\/O systems – performance measures – reliability and availability – designing an I\/O system – case study – Unix file system performance
Module IV (12 hours)<\/strong>
Interconnection networks – simple networks – connecting more than two computers – practical issues – multiprocessors – introduction – application domains – centralized-shared memory and distributed-shared memory architectures – synchronization – models of memory consistency<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Text book<\/strong>
Hennesy J.L. & Pattersen D.A., Computer Architecture: A Quantitative approach, 2\/e, Harcourt Asia Pte Ltd. (Morgan Kaufman)<\/a>
Reference books<\/strong>
1.\u00a0Pattersen D.A. & Hennesy J.L., Computer Organisation and Design: The Hardware\/ Software Inter face, 2\/e, Harcourt Asia Pte Ltd (Morgan Kaufman)<\/a>
2.\u00a0Hwang K., Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability and Programmability, McGraw Hill
3. Hwang & Briggs, Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing. McGrawHill<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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