In this course, you will learn to design the computer architecture of complex modern microprocessors.
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Computer Architecture
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There are 21 modules in this course
This lecture will give you a broad overview of the course, as well as the description of architecture, micro-architecture and instruction set architectures.
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8 videos2 readings
This lecture covers the basic concept of pipeline and two different types of hazards.
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4 videos1 reading
This lecture covers control hazards and the motivation for caches.
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5 videos1 reading
This lecture covers cache characteristics and basic superscalar architecture.
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5 videos1 reading
This lecture covers the common issues for superscalar architecture.
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4 videos1 reading
This lecture covers different kinds of architectures for out-of-order processors.
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5 videos2 readings
This lecture covers the common methods used to improve the performance of out-of-order processors including register renaming and memory disambiguation.
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5 videos
This lecture covers the basic concept of very long instruction word (VLIW) processors.
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5 videos3 readings
This lecture covers the common methods used to improve VLIW performance.
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6 videos1 reading1 quiz
This lecture covers the motivation and implementation of branch predictors.
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5 videos1 reading
This lecture covers the advanced mechanisms used to improve cache performance.
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6 videos1 reading
This lecture covers more advanced mechanisms used to improve cache performance.
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4 videos2 readings
This lecture covers memory management and protection.
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5 videos2 readings
This lecture covers the vector processor and optimizations for vector processors.
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6 videos1 reading
This lecture covers different types of multithreading.
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6 videos1 reading
This lecture covers the concepts of parallelism, consistency models, and basic parallel programming techniques.
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4 videos1 reading
This lecture covers the solutions for the consistency problem in parallel programming.
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5 videos
This lecture covers the implementation of small multiprocessors.
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5 videos2 readings
This lecture covers the design of interconnects for a multiprocessor.
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4 videos2 readings
This lecture covers the design of interconnects for multiprocessor and network topology.
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5 videos1 reading
This lecture covers the motivation and implementation of directory protocol used for coherence on large multiproccesors.
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6 videos2 readings1 quiz
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