EC404N Advanced Computer Architecture
Course Name:
EC404N Advanced Computer Architecture
Programme:
B.Tech (ECE)
Category:
Programme Specific Electives (PSE)
Credits (L-T-P):
(3-0-0) 3
Content:
Instruction Level Parallelism: Pipelining, Hazards, Instruction Level Parallelism, Branch prediction, Static and Dynamic Scheduling, Speculation, Limits of ILP. Multicore Memory Hierarchy: Cache tradeoffs, Basic and Advanced optimizations, Virtual Memory, DRAM optimizations. Multiprocessors: Symmetric and Distributed architectures, Cache coherence protocols - Snoopy and Directory based, ISA support for Synchronization, Memory Consistency Models. Interconnection Networks: Architectures, Topologies, Performance, Routing, Flow control, Future of NoCs. .
References:
John Hennessy and David Patterson, Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach, 6th Edition, Morgan Koufmann, 2017
John Hennessy and David Patterson, Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach, 5th Edition, Morgan Koufmann, 2011
John Paul Shen and Mikko H. Lipasti, Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors, Tata McGraw Hill, 2013
D. A. Patterson and J. Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design, Harcourt Asia, 1998
Behrooz Parhami, Computer Arithmetic Algorithms and Hardware Design, Oxford, 2000