Architecture of High Performance Computers
This note will give an introduction to designing and programming high performance processors. Topics covered includes: Branch Prediction, renaming, precise interrupts, Register Renaming, Wakeup, Bypass, Broadcast, Load-Store Queue, Commit, Recovery from speculation: RRF and RRAT, SRAM vs CAM based checkpoint, ROB based OOO processor design Little's Law, Non-Selective and Deferred Selective Replay, SRAM and DRAM Cells, CAM Cells, Pentium Trace Cache, Date Prefetching, Cache Design with Cacti, NUCA Caches, Routing and Flow Control, Hardware Security, Flow Control, Coherence and Consistency, Coherence Protocols, Directory Coherence and Atomic Primitives, Memory Consistency Models.
Author(s): Dr. Smruti R. Sarangi
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Introduction to Computer Architecture by UC
Computer Architecture studies the techniques used to design and implement the principle components of a computer system and the mechanisms that can be used to quantitatively evaluate the expected performance capabilities of the different design possibilities. This page covers the following topics related to Computer Architecture : Introduction, Historical Overview, Fundamentals of Computer Design, Optimizations of the Memory Hierarchy,Instruction Level Parallelism , Data Parallelism, Thread-Level Parallelism, Warehouse Computing, Domain Specific Architecture.
Author(s): University of Cincinnati
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Computer Architecture Class notes
This note covers the following topics: Fundamentals of Computer Design, Basic Organization of a Computer, Instruction Set Design, Addressing Modes, CPU Implementation, Interrupts, The Memory Hierarchy, Virtual Memory.
Author(s): Virgil Bistriceanu
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Computer Architecture and Organization by Dr. R. M. Siegfried
This note explains the following topics: Number Systems and Arithmetic, Boolean Algebra, Karnaugh Maps, The Quine McCluskey Algorithm, Combinational Circuits, Synchronous Sequential Logic, Registers and Counters, Register Transfer and Micro operations, Basic Computer Organization and Design, Micro programmed Control, Floating Point Data, Pipeline and Vector Processing.
Author(s): Dr. R. M. Siegfried
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Introduction to Computer Architecture Lecture Notes
Computer architecture is the science and art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create a computer that meets functional, performance and cost goals. In this note, students will learn how to completely design a correct single processor computer, including processor datapath, processor control, memory systems, and I/O. Topics covered includes: Performance, Instructions, Arithmetic, Datapath, Control, Exceptions, Pipelining, Caches, Memory and VM, Arithmetic, Multiprocessors.
Author(s): David A. Wood and T. A. Ramkumar Ravikumar
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Computer Systems Architecture Handouts and Lecture Notes
This lecture note explains the basic principles and current practices of computer architectures and organizations, including instruction set design, pipelining, caching, virtual memory, and parallelism.
Author(s): Prof. Shantanu Dutt
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Computer Organization and Architecture
This course note provides an introduction to Computer Organization And Architecture and the content of this web course covers majority of the topics taught at the undergraduate level in the computer science and engineering disciplines of Engineering Colleges and Universities in India.
Author(s): Dr. Jatindra Kumar deka
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Capability Based Computer Systems
This book is an introduction, a survey, a history,and an evaluation of capability-and object-based computer systems.This book explains the following topics: Capability- and Object-Based System Concepts, Early Descriptor Architectures, Early Capability Architectures, The Plessey System, The Cambridge CAP Computer, The Hydra System, The StarOS System, The IBM System/38, The Intel iAPX 432 and Issues in Capability-Based Architectures.
Author(s): Henry M. Levy
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Computer Architecture Tutorial
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