ECSE 425 Lectures – Fall 2011

Lectures are held on MWF from 10:35 AM to 11:25 AM in WONG 1030.

Lecture notes will be made available here over the course of the semester; notes will only appear on-line after they have been covered in class.

• Lecture 1, Course Introduction

• Lecture 2, Trends in Computer Architecture

• Lecture 3, Trends in IC Cost

• Lecture 4, Dependability; Quantitative Principles of Design

• Lecture 5, Quantifying Computer Performance

• Lecture 6, Pipelining

• Lecture 7, Pipeline Hazards

• Lecture 8, Branch Hazards; Pipeline Implementation

• Lecture 9, Exceptions; Multi-cycle Operations

• Lecture 10, Instruction-level Parallelism

• Lecture 11, Loop Unrolling

• Lecture 12, Branch Prediction

• Lecture 13, More Branch Prediction

• Lecture 14, Dynamic Scheduling

• Lecture 15, More Dynamic Scheduling

• Lecture 16, Hardware Speculation

• Lecture 17, Multiple-Issue Processors

• Lecture 18, Advanced Techniques for Instruction Delivery and Speculation

• Lecture 19, Introduction to Memory Hierarchy

• Lecture 20, Cache Basics

• Lecture 21, Cache Performance

• Lecture 22, Cache Optimization

• Lecture 23, Virtual Memory

• Lecture 24, Limits of ILP

• Lecture 25, Multi-threading

• Lecture 26, Introduction to Multiprocessors

• Lecture 27, Symmetric Multiprocessors

• Lecture 28, Snoopy Coherence Protocols

• Lecture 29, More Snoopy Coherence

• Lecture 30, Directory Coherence

• Lecture 31, Synchronization and Consistency