ECE 4100/6100
Advanced Computer Architecture

Prerequisites: ECE 3055

Catalog Description: Comprehensive coverage of the architecture and system issues that confront the design of high performance workstation/PC computer architectures with emphasis on quantitative evaluation. Credit is not allowed for both ECE 6100 and any of the following courses: ECE 4100, CS 4290, and CS 6290.

Course Syllabus: http://www.ece.gatech.edu/academics/courses/course_outline.php?prmCourse=ECE6100

Lectures:
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Module	Topic	Reading Assignment	Notes
1	Overview and ILP Taxonomy		Moore’s Law ITRS Road Map
2	Overview: Optimizing Compilers
3	Hardware Scheduling: Part I Hardware Scheduling: Part II	A Great Example from UC Berkeley*	Sample Problems: Dependencies Sample Problems:HW Scheduling
4	Branch Prediction Performance Evaluation	Trace Cache Intel P4 Power 5	Sample Problems: Prediction & Speculation
5	Speculative Execution ILP Optimizations	Intel P4 Power 5 Hyperthreading: Xeon	SATSIM Simulator
6	Exceptions
7	Caches	Moore’s Seminal Paper The Memory Wall The Memory Wall	Sample Problems: Memory Hierarchy
8	Memory
9	Coherency and Consistency	"Shared Memory Consistency Models: A Tutorial" Coherence and Consistency Examples	Sample Problems: Coherence and Consistency
10	Instruction Scheduling
11	Register Allocation
12	Storage Systems
13	Interconnection Networks Hypertransport Commercial Examples		Janet: A Flit-Level Multiprocessor Network Simulator Avici Terabit Router White Paper
14	Multi-core and Other Case Studies	Multicore Computing – Evolution Multicore – Revisiting Parallelism Guide to Multicore Commercial Processors	Case Studies
*	Extra – PCI Express	PCI Express HyperTransport

*Reference the Tomasulo Example in lecture notes for CS 252, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley, taught by Professor David Patterson and available at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pattrsn/252S01/.