Spring Semester, 1998

M W F, 2:10 - 3:00 pm, 217 Atanasoff

Akhilesh Tyagi
office hours: 233 Atanasoff Hall, Th 1-2PM, F 10-11AM
tyagi@cs.iastate.edu

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This course covers advanced trends in computer architecture. Here is an outline of topics to be covered in this course this semester. About half the course would cover advanced pipelining techniques: VLIW, superscalar, multiscalar, general scheduling methods and compiler techniques targeted towards instruction-level parallelism. We will also discuss counterflow pipeline, a different kind of pipeline proposed by Sproull and Sutherland. The rest of the course would be about newer architectures and technologies (most likely topics: reconfigurable computing and intelligent DRAM (IRAM) architectures).

D. J. L. Hennessy and A. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc., second edition 1996.

The following is a brief outline of the topics to be covered in the course.

Advanced pipelining -- instruction level parallelism: scheduling, hardware and compiler support. VLIW, superscalar, and multiscalar architectures, Branches. counterflow pipeline. [8-9 weeks]

Alternate technologies: reconfigurable computing architectures and/or intelligent DRAM (IRAM) architectures. [6-7 weeks]

Your grade would be based on your performance on homeworks and course project. There will be approximately 6 assignments. By the end of February, 1998, you would be choosing a course project (either as an individual or in a group of two). This project will account for 50% of your grade with the homeworks accounting for the remaining 50% of your grade. You would be making a presentation about your project towards the end of the semester. You would also write a report on your findings in the project.

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