The notes are taken from the books required for the course:
- J.L. Hennessy and D.A. Patterson. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach. ISSN. Elsevier Science, 2017
You can view/download the PDF here. In the notes folder, you can also see the source code.
For any issue, use the appropriate section.
According to the official course syllabus:
- MIPS Processor Pipelining and Hazards; Multicycle Pipeline; Exceptions Handling;
- Static and Dynamic Branch Prediction;
- Memory Hierarchy: Basic and Advanced Concepts; Virtual Memory Architectures;
- Performance Evaluation and Metrics;
- Introduction to Instruction Level Parallelism: Static vs Dynamic Scheduling; Superscalars vs VLIW Processors;
- Scoreboard Dynamic Scheduling;
- Tomasulo Dynamic Scheduling;
- Register Renaming and Reorder Buffer;
- Static Scheduling: VLIW Architectures;
- Multithreading Architectures;
- Multiprocessors Architectures; Manycores;
- Cache Coherency Protocols in Multiprocessors;
- SIMD, Vector Processors; Intro to GP-GPUs; Intro to Tensor Cores.