R07 4-1 ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE Syllabus

ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

Unit - I

Fundamentals of Computer design- Technology trends- cost- measuring and reporting performance 

 

quantitative principles of computer design.

Unit - II

Instruction set principles and examples- classifying instruction set- memory addressing- type and size of 

 

operands- addressing modes for signal processing-operations in the instruction set- instructions for control 

 

flow- encoding an instruction set.-the role of compiler

Unit - III

Instruction level parallelism (ILP)- over coming data hazards- reducing branch costs –high performance 

 

instruction delivery- hardware based speculation- limitation of ILP

Unit - IV

ILP software approach- compiler techniques- static branch protection - VLIW approach - H.W support for 

 

more ILP at compile time- H.W verses S.W Solutions

Unit - V

Memory hierarchy design- cache performance- reducing cache misses penalty and miss rate – virtual 

 

memory- protection and examples of VM.

Unit - VI

Multiprocessors and thread level parallelism- symmetric shared memory architectures- distributed shared 

 

memory- Synchronization- multi threading.

Unit - VII

Storage systems- Types – Buses - RAID- errors and failures- bench marking a storage device- designing 

 

a I/O system.

Unit - VIII

Inter connection networks and clusters- interconnection network media – practical issues in 

 

interconnecting networks- examples – clusters- designing a cluster.

TEXT BOOK :

1. Computer Architecture A quantitative approach 3rd edition John L. Hennessy & David A. Patterson 

 

Morgan Kufmann (An Imprint of Elsevier)

REFERENCES :

1. “Computer Architecture and parallel Processing” Kai Hwang and A.Briggs International Edition McGraw- 

 

Hill.

2. Advanced Computer Architectures, Dezso Sima, Terence Fountain, Peter Kacsuk, Pearson.

3. Parallel Computer Architecture, A Hardware / Software Approach, David E. Culler, Jaswinder Pal singh

with Anoop Gupta, Elsevier