CSCE430/830: Computer Architecture  

Lecture Notes:

1. Fundamentals of Computer Design (Reference slides)

2. Basic Pipelining & Performance

· Reference Slides

o Instruction Set Architecture: An Introduction

o MIPS: An ISA Case Study

o Introduction to Pipelining

o Pipeline Hazards

o Pipeline Exceptions and Control

3. Instruction Level Parallelism

· Reference Slides

o -- Introduction

o -- Scoreboard

o -- Tomasulo

o – Loop Unrolling

4. Advanced Hardware Approaches – Speculation

5. Review 1: Pipeline Design and Basics

6. Memory Hierarchy – Introduction

· Reference Slides

o Memory Hierarchy -- Performance

o Memory Hierarchy – Set-Associative Cache

o Memory Hierarchy – Virtual Memory

o Review of Memory Hierarchy

7. Memory Hierarchy – Advanced Techniques: Virtual Machine Monitors

· Reference Slides

o IEEE Computer paper

o Cambridge Master Class on Xen VM

8. Storage Systems and I/O

· Reference Slides

1. Disk Storage Systems (1)

2. Disk Storage Systems (2)

3. Disk Storage Systems (3): RAID

4. Disk Technology Basics

5. Storage Class Memory (SCM)

6. Solid State Disk (SSD)

9. Review 2: Memory Hierarchy & Storage