Lecture Presentations

Introduction to Computer Architecture

Performance

IC Manufacturing, Cost, Power, and Dependability

Instruction Set Principles and Architectures

Main Memory

Cache Memory

Cache Optimization

Virtual Memory

Instruction Pipelining: Basic and Intermediate Concepts

Advanced Pipelining

Static Instruction Level Parallelism and VLIW

Multiprocessors and Thread-Level Parallelism

Data-Level Parallelism in Vector, SIMD, and GPU Architectures

Additional Reading

Introduction to Integrated Circuit Technology (Jones)

Survey of Instruction Set Architectures (H&P Book, Appendix K)

The Microarchitecture of Superscalar Processors (Smith and Sohi)

Hardware and Software for VLIW and EPIC (H&P Book, Appendix H)

Why On-Chip Cache Coherence is Here to Stay (Martin, Hill, and Sorin)

Niagara: A 32-Way Multithreaded Sparc Processor (Kongetira, Aingaran, and Olukotun)