Computer Architecture
In this course, you will learn to design the computer architecture of complex modern microprocessors.
All the features of this course are available for free.
Week 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.
Pipelining Review
This lecture covers the basic concept of pipeline and two different types of hazards.
Week 2:
Cache Review
This lecture covers control hazards and the motivation for caches.
Superscalar 1
This lecture covers cache characteristics and basic superscalar architecture.
Week3:
Superscalar 2 & Exceptions
This lecture covers the common issues for superscalar architecture.
This lecture covers different kinds of architectures for out-of-order processors.
Week 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.
VLIW 1
This lecture covers the basic concept of very long instruction word (VLIW) processors.
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