In this course, you will learn to design the computer architecture of complex modern microprocessors.
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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 assignment
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 assignment
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Reviewed on Jan 18, 2021
Great course, but quite difficult. I recommend working through all of the problem sets. The video lectures are more important than the textbook readings.
Reviewed on Aug 23, 2017
Nice course, learnt a lot of new information. If practical part is also included in this course, this this course will even be more good.
Reviewed on Jul 1, 2020
Course quality was top notch. Certainly one of the best courses on coursera. Exams are hard but are a good mirror of how you can expect the actual univ exams to be.
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