Computer Architecture - Fundamentals

Advanced Computer Architecture

Applications and handheld devices play a major role in ensuring comfort in our day- today life. These applications run on handheld electronic gadgets with high-end microprocessor support. Modern CPU designers handle challenges imposed by these applications with cost effective architectural enhancements. 

This book provides a deeper insight into the design of high-end microprocessors that will support the future applications.

Advanced Computer Architecture

Applications and handheld devices play a major role in ensuring comfort in our day- today life. These applications run on handheld electronic gadgets with high-end microprocessor support. Modern CPU designers handle challenges imposed by these applications with cost effective architectural enhancements. 

This book provides a deeper insight into the design of high-end microprocessors that will support the future applications.

Review of Basic Computer Organization, Performance Evaluation Methods, Introduction to RISC Instruction Pipeline,  Instruction Pipeline and Performance.

Pipeline Hazards and Analysis, Branch Prediction, MIPS Pipeline for Multi-Cycle Operations.

Compiler Techniques to Explore Instruction Level Parallelism, Dynamic Scheduling with Tomasulo's Algorithm and Speculative Execution.

Advanced Pipelining and Superscalar Processors, Exploiting Data Level Parallelism: Vector and  GPU Architectures, Architectural Simulation using gem5.

Introduction to Cache Memory, focus on Basic Block Techniques and Write Strategy, Design Concepts in Cache Memory.

Basic and Advanced Optimization Techniques in Cache Memory, Cache Optimization using gem5.

Introduction to DRAM System, DRAM Controllers and Address Mapping, Design Concepts in DRAM and Hard Disk.