CS-603-A Advanced Computer Architecture

1. 1

   Unit 1: Flynn's Classification

   • Flynn's Classification
   • System Attributes to Performance
   • Parallel computer models - Multiprocessors and multicomputers
   • Multivector and SIMD Computers
   • Data and resource dependences
   • Hardware and software parallelism
   • Program partitioning and scheduling
   • Grain size and latency
   • Control flow
   • data flow and Demand driven mechanisms
   • Static interconnection networks
   • Dynamic interconnection Networks: Bus Systems
   • Crossbar Switch
   • Multiport Memory
   • Multistage and Combining Networks
2. 2

   Unit 2: Instruction set architecture

   • Instruction set architecture
   • CISC Scalar Processors
   • RISC Scalar Processors
   • VLIW architecture
   • Memory Hierarchy
   • Inclusion
   • Coherence and Locality
   • Memory capacity planning
   • Interleaved memory organization-memory interleaving
   • pipelined memory access
   • Bandwidth and Fault Tolerance
   • Backplane Bus System :Backplane bus specification
   • Addressing and timing protocols
   • Arbitration transaction and interrupt
3. 3

   Unit 3: Linear pipeline processor

   • Linear pipeline processor
   • Nonlinear pipeline processor
   • Instruction pipeline design
   • Mechanisms for instruction pipelining
   • pipeline hazards
   • Dynamic instruction scheduling -score boarding and Tomosulo's algorithm
   • Branch handling techniques
   • Arithmetic Pipeline Design
   • Static arithmetic pipeline
   • Multifunctional arithmetic pipelines
   • Superscalar pipeline design
   • Super pipeline processor design
4. 4

   Unit 4: Cache coherence

   • Cache coherence
   • Snoopy protocols
   • Directory based protocols
   • Message routing schemes in multicomputer network
   • deadlock and virtual channel
   • Vector Processing Principles
   • Vector instruction types
   • Vector-access memory schemes
   • Vector supercomputer architecture
   • SIMD organization: distributed memory model and shared memory model
   • Principles of Multithreading: Multithreading Issues and Solutions
   • Multiple-Context Processors
5. 5

   Unit 5: Parallel Programming Models

   • Parallel Programming Models
   • Shared-Variable Model
   • Message-Passing Model
   • Data-Parallel Model
   • Object-Oriented Model
   • Functional and Logic Models
   • Parallel Languages and Compilers
   • Language Features for Parallelism
   • Parallel Programming Environment
   • Software Tools and Environments

Source: RGPV scheme and syllabus, B.Tech Computer Science and Engineering, Semester 6 (AICTE flexible curriculum, w.e.f. Jan 2020). Official syllabus PDF