Publisher | Technical Publications |
Product Format | Paper Back |
Language Published | English |
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Product ID | 9789333211277 |
Advanced Computer Architecture ( Elective III) :
UNIT - I FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER DESIGN
Review of Fundamentals of CPU, Memory and IO - Trends in technology, power, energy and cost, Dependability - Performance Evaluation
UNIT - II INSTRUCTION LEVEL PARALLELISM
ILP concepts - Pipelining overview - Compiler Techniques for Exposing ILP - Dynamic Branch Prediction - Dynamic Scheduling - Multiple instruction Issue - Hardware Based Speculation - Static scheduling - Multi-threading - Limitations of ILP - Case Studies.
UNIT - III DATA-LEVEL PARALLELISM
Vector architecture - SIMD extensions - Graphics Processing units - Loop level parallelism.
UNIT - IV THREAD LEVEL PARALLELISM
Symmetric and Distributed Shared Memory Architectures - Performance Issues -Synchronization - Models of Memory Consistency - Case studies: Intel i7 Processor, SMT & CMP Processors
UNIT - V MEMORY AND I/O
Cache Performance - Reducing Cache Miss Penalty and Miss Rate - Reducing Hit Time - Main Memory and Performance - Memory Technology. Types of Storage Devices - Buses - RAID - Reliability, Availability and Dependability - I/O Performance Measures