A discussion of computer system design concepts with stress on modern ideas that have shaped the high-performance architecture of contemporary systems. Instruction sets, pipelining, instruction-level parallelism, register reuse, branch prediction, CPU control, cache-coherence, accelerators, and related concepts. Memory technologies, caches, I/O, high-performance networks. Credit cannot be obtained for both CMPUT 429 and 529.
A discussion of computer system design concepts with stress on modern ideas that have shaped the high-performance architecture of contemporary systems. Instruction sets, pipelining, instruction-level parallelism, register reuse, branch prediction, CPU control, cache-coherence, accelerators, and related concepts. Memory technologies, caches, I/O, high-performance networks. Credit cannot be obtained for both CMPUT 429 and 529.
