À propos de ce cours : In this course, you will learn to design the computer architecture of complex modern microprocessors.
Créé par : Princeton University
Enseigné par : David Wentzlaff , Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering
| Niveau | Avancées |
| Langue | English |
| Comment réussir | Réussissez tous les devoirs notés pour terminer le cours. |
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Programme de cours
SEMAINE 1
Introduction, Instruction Set Architecture, and Microcode
This lecture will give you a broad overview of the course, as well as the description of architecture, micro-architecture and instruction set architectures.
8 vidéos, 2 lectures
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Course Overview
- Vidéo: Motivation
- Vidéo: Course Content
- Vidéo: Architecture and Microarchitecture
- Vidéo: Machine Models
- Vidéo: ISA Characteristics
- Vidéo: Recap
- Reading: Problem Set 1 & 1A
Pipelining Review
This lecture covers the basic concept of pipeline and two different types of hazards.
4 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Pipeline Basics
- Vidéo: Structural Hazard
- Vidéo: Data Hazards
SEMAINE 2
Cache Review
This lecture covers control hazards and the motivation for caches.
5 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Control Hazards, Branch
- Vidéo: Control Hazards, Others
- Vidéo: Memory Technologies
- Vidéo: Motivation for Caches
Superscalar 1
This lecture covers cache characteristics and basic superscalar architecture.
5 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Cache Performance
- Vidéo: Superscalar 1
- Vidéo: Basic Two-way In-order Superscalar
- Vidéo: Fetch Logic and Alignment
SEMAINE 3
Superscalar 2 & Exceptions
This lecture covers the common issues for superscalar architecture.
4 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Interrupts and Bypassing
- Vidéo: Interrupts and Exceptions
- Vidéo: Introduction to Out-of-Order Processors
Superscalar 3
This lecture covers different kinds of architectures for out-of-order processors.
5 vidéos, 2 lectures
- Vidéo: I2O2 Processors
- Vidéo: I2O1 Processors
- Vidéo: IO3 Processors
- Vidéo: IO2I Processors
- Reading: Problem Set 2
- Reading: Problem Set 1 Solutions
SEMAINE 4
Superscalar 4
This lecture covers the common methods used to improve the performance of out-of-order processors including register renaming and memory disambiguation.
5 vidéos
- Vidéo: Register Renaming Introduction
- Vidéo: Register Renaming with Pointers to IQ and ROB
- Vidéo: Register Renaming with Values in IQ and ROB
- Vidéo: Memory Disambiguation
VLIW 1
This lecture covers the basic concept of very long instruction word (VLIW) processors.
5 vidéos, 3 lectures
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Introduction to VLIW
- Vidéo: VLIW Compiler Optimizations
- Vidéo: Classic VLIW Challenges
- Vidéo: Introduction to Predication
- Reading: Problem Set 3
- Reading: Problem Set 2 Solutions
SEMAINE 5
VLIW2
This lecture covers the common methods used to improve VLIW performance.
6 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Review of Predication
- Vidéo: Predication Implementation
- Vidéo: Speculation Execution
- Vidéo: Dynamic Events and Clustered VLIWs
- Vidéo: Case Study: IA-64/Itanium
Noté: Midterm
Branch Prediction
This lecture covers the motivation and implementation of branch predictors.
5 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Branch Prediction Introduction
- Vidéo: Static Outcome Prediction
- Vidéo: Dynamic Outcome Prediction
- Vidéo: Target Address Prediction
SEMAINE 6
Advanced Caches 1
This lecture covers the advanced mechanisms used to improve cache performance.
6 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Cache Pipelining
- Vidéo: Write Buffers
- Vidéo: Multilevel Caches
- Vidéo: Victim Caches
- Vidéo: Prefetching
Advanced Caches 2
This lecture covers more advanced mechanisms used to improve cache performance.
4 vidéos, 2 lectures
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Software Memory Optimizations
- Vidéo: Non-blocking Caches
- Vidéo: Critical Word First and Early Restart
- Reading: Problem Set 3 Solutions
SEMAINE 7
Memory Protection
This lecture covers memory management and protection.
5 vidéos, 2 lectures
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Base and Bound Registers
- Vidéo: Page Based Memory Systems
- Vidéo: Translation and Protection
- Vidéo: TLB Processing
- Reading: Problem Set 4 & 4A
Vector Processors and GPUs
This lecture covers the vector processor and optimizations for vector processors.
6 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Cache and Memory Protection Interaction
- Vidéo: Vector Processor Introduction
- Vidéo: Vector Parallelism
- Vidéo: Vector Hardware Optimizations
- Vidéo: Vector Software and Compiler Optimizations
SEMAINE 8
Multithreading
This lecture covers different types of multithreading.
6 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: SIMD
- Vidéo: GPUs
- Vidéo: Multithreading Motivation
- Vidéo: Coarse-Grain Multithreading
- Vidéo: Simultaneous Multithreading
Parallel Programming 1
This lecture covers the concepts of parallelism, consistency models, and basic parallel programming techniques.
4 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Introduction to Parallelism
- Vidéo: Sequential Consistency
- Vidéo: Introduction to Locks
SEMAINE 9
Parallel Programming 2
This lecture covers the solutions for the consistency problem in parallel programming.
5 vidéos
- Vidéo: Locks and Semaphores
- Vidéo: Atomic Operations
- Vidéo: Memory Fences
- Vidéo: Dekker's Algorithm
Small Multiprocessors
This lecture covers the implementation of small multiprocessors.
5 vidéos, 2 lectures
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Bus Implementation
- Vidéo: Cache Coherence
- Vidéo: Bus-Based Multiprocessors
- Vidéo: Cache Coherence Protocols
- Reading: Problem Set 4 Solutions
SEMAINE 10
Multiprocessor Interconnect 1
This lecture covers the design of interconnects for a multiprocessor.
4 vidéos, 2 lectures
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Introduction to Interconnection Networks
- Vidéo: Message Passing
- Vidéo: Interconnect Design
- Reading: Problem Set 5 & 5A
Multiprocessor Interconnect 2
This lecture covers the design of interconnects for multiprocessor and network topology.
5 vidéos, 1 lecture
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Topology
- Vidéo: Topology Parameters
- Vidéo: Network Performance
- Vidéo: Routing and Flow Control
SEMAINE 11
Large Multiprocessors (Directory Protocols)
This lecture covers the motivation and implementation of directory protocol used for coherence on large multiproccesors.
6 vidéos, 2 lectures
- Reading: Readings
- Vidéo: Deadlock
- Vidéo: False Sharing
- Vidéo: Introduction to Directory Coherence
- Vidéo: Implementation
- Vidéo: Scalability of Directory Coherence
- Reading: Problem Set 5 Solutions
Noté: Final Exam
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Excellent, definitely not for beginners.
The best Course.
The course presents advanced material, not easily found elsewhere. Labs would have definitely facilitated the learning in this case and I hope they will be added in the future.
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This course is well organized and Lectures are well delievered. It's complex dught, because it is deep learning and has a lot of things to know.
I recomend this course to any computer engineer who wanted to improve his or her talents on Computer Architecture.