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Course introduction + Great ideas in computer architecture |
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| 2 |
Below your program + Under the cover |
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| 3 |
Fabrication technology of computers and memories + Performance |
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| 4 |
Power wall + Parallelization and multiprocessors + Benchmarks |
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| 5 |
Amdahl's law + Concluding chapter 1 |
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| 6 |
Assembly language + ISA + 2's complement review + Endianness |
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| 7 |
RISC-V assembly instructions |
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| 8 |
Calling procedures in assembly language |
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| 9 |
Accessing characters and numbers of different sizes |
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| 10 |
Compile, Assemble, Link, and Load + Compiler optimizations |
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| 11 |
Other RISC-V assembly instructions + Concluding chapter 2 |
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| 12 |
Long multiplication + CSA and array multiplier + Booth multiplication + Hardware multiplication |
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| 13 |
Division algorithm + Fixed and floating point representation |
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| 14 |
RISC-V multiplication, division, and floating point assembly instructions |
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| 15 |
Associativity and accuracy of floating point arithmetic + Multiplication and division using shift + Subword parallelism + Concluding chapter 3 |
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| 16 |
Single cycle datapath and control unit |
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| 17 |
Multi cycle and pipeline architectures |
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| 18 |
Data Hazards + Data forwarding + Stall |
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| 19 |
Data and control hazards in branch instructions + Branch prediction |
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| 20 |
Exceptions + ILP + Loop unrolling |
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| 21 |
Concluding chapter 4 |
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| 22 |
Memory types + Principle of locality |
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| 23 |
Cache structure + Cache design parameters + Direct mapped cache + Handling writes in caches (WB, WT, WA, NWA) |
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| 24 |
Measuring cache performance + Memory average access time + Associative Cache + Replacement policy + Multi level cache |
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