Computer Architecture

Numbering Code U-ENG29 39133 LJ11 Year/Term 2022 ・ First semester
Number of Credits 2 Course Type Lecture
Target Year Target Student
Language Japanese Day/Period Mon.1
Instructor name OKABE YASUO (Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies Professor)
Outline and Purpose of the Course We learn pipelined instruction execution, memory hierarchy and parallel processing mechanism in modern computers.
Course Goals Understanding the following topics so that you explain them to other people.
1. Instruction Pipeline
2. Memory Hierarchy
3. Parallel Processors
Schedule and Contents Instruction Pipeline (1),1time,Overview of pipelining
Instruction Pipeline (2),1time,Pipelined data-path and its control mechanism
Instruction Pipeline (3),1time,Data hazards
Instruction Pipeline (4),1time,Control (branch) hazards and execptions
Instruction Pipeline (5),1time,Instruction-level parallelism
Memory Hierarchy (1),1time,Meomory technology Cache (1)
Memory Hierarchy (2),1time,Cache (2)
Memory Hierarchy (3),1time,Cache (3)
Memory Hierarchy (4),1time,Virtual memory (1)
Memory Hierarchy (5),1time,Virtual memory (2)
Memory Hierarchy (6),1time,Other concepts of memory hierarchy
Parallel Processors (1),1time,Overview, SIMD extension, Vector processors
Parallel Processors (2),1time,Multithreading, Cache coherence
Parallel Processors (3),1time,Shared Memory Multiprocessors
End-of-term Exam,1time,
Feedback,1time,Explanatoin of exam problems
Evaluation Methods and Policy Your achievements in end-of-term exam and per-class exercises are evaluated with respect to the "Course Goals".
Course Requirements Though not a mandatory prerequisite, you are expected to having received the credit of "Computer Organization" for 2nd-year students.
Study outside of Class (preparation and review) Through the work on the weakly exercise, review what you learned in each class.
Textbooks Textbooks/References Computer Organization and Design - The Hardware/Software Interface - 5th ed.No. 2,
by David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, Translated in Japanese by M. Narita, Nikkei BP
isbn{}{9784822298432}
Related URL https://panda.ecs.kyoto-u.ac.jp/portal/
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