| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Quantitative Design and Analysis[Slide] Classes of Computers, Defining Computer Architecture, Trends in Technology, Trends in Power and Energy in Integrated Circuits, Trends in Cost, Dependability |
| 2 | Benchmark Desktop Benchmarks, Server Benchmarks, Putting It All Together: Performance, Price and Power |
| 3 | Chapter 2: Memory Hierarchy Design Basics of Memory Hierarchy, Memory Technology and Optimizations, Reducing Power Consumption in SDRAMs |
| 4 | Reducing Power Consumption in SDRAMs |
| 5 | Chapter 3: Instruction-Level Parallelism and Its Exploitation Data Dependences, Name Dependences, Data Hazards, Branch-Target Buffers, Integrated Instruction Fetch Units, Speculation Support: Register Renaming Versus Reorder Buffers, The Challenge of More Issues Per Clock |
| 6 | Instruction-Level Parallelism and Its Exploitation Speculating Through Multiple Branches, Speculation and The Challenge of Energy Efficiency, Performance of A53 Pipeline, The Intel Core i7, Performance of i7 |
| 7 | Chapter 4: Data-Level Parallelism in Vector, SIMD, and GPU Architecture Vector Architecture, SIMD Instruction Set Extensions for Multimedia, Graphics Processing Units, NVIDIA GPU Computational Structures, NVIDIA GPU Instruction Set Architecture, NVIDIA GPU Memory Structure |
| 8 | Mid-Semester Break |
| 9 | Chapter 5: Thread-Level Parallelism Multiprocessor Architecture, Centralized Shared Memory Architecture, Performance of Symmetric Shared-Memory Multiprocessors |
| 10 | Thread-Level Parallelism - Multi-core Processor Multicore-Based Processor on Multiprogrammed Workload |
| 11 | Chapter 6: Warehouse-Scale Computers to Exploit Request-Level and Data-Level Parallelism Warehouse-Scale Computer Programming Models and Workload, Warehouse-Scale Computer Architecture, Warehouse-Scale Computer Memory Hierarchy, Warehouse-Scale Computer Efficiency and Cost, Cloud Computing, Amazon Web Services |
| 12 | Warehouse-Scale Computers Putting It All Together Google Warehouse-Scale Computer |
| 13 | Chapter 7: Domain-Specific Architecture Google Tensor Processing Unit, An Inference Data Center Accelerator |
| 14 | Microsoft Catapult and Intel Crest Microsoft Catapult, A Flexible Data Center Accelerator, Intel Crest, A Data Center Accelerator for Training |
| 15 | Pixel Visual Core Pixel Visual Core, A Personal Mobile Device Image Processing Unit, Pixel Visual Core Software, Pixel Visual Core Architecture Philosophy |
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