Computer-Architecture

Computer Architecture Notes

A solid, detailed understanding of how computers are designed and implemented, including the central processor and memory and I/O interfaces; and to make you aware of the numerous tradeoffs in design and implementation, their interaction, their realization in both historical and state-of-the-art systems, and trends that will affect them in future systems. We will cover instruction set architectures, pipelining (including basic pipelining, multiple-instruction-per-cycle machines, out-of-order instruction execution, and vector processing), memory systems (including caches and virtual memory), I/O interfaces, operating system issues, power utilization, and multiprocessor systems. We will also do case studies on microprocessors and systems you may have used, perhaps including the P6 (Pentium Pro/II/III), Pentium 4, AMD's Hammer, and the Itanium.

Sections

• SystemVerilog: Hardware Description Language
• The Build System
• Writing Good Testbenches
• Revision Control
• Linux Scripting
• SystemVerilog
• Memory

EECS 470 Overview

• high level understanding of moder computer architecture
  • Dynamic out of order processing
  • static out of order processing
  • memory hierarchy issues and improvement
  • multi-processor issues
  • power and reliability issuses
• low level understanding of moder computer architecture
  • all functions in a given component will need to perform
  • how difficult certain tasks in hardware

Resource:

• Computer-Architecture
• cpp_cheatsheet