ECE519(00) Microprocessor Microarchitecture

▣ Lecture outline

Traditional speedup curve of Amdahl's law no longer applies to computer system performance. All the recent high-performance designs of Intel, IBM, and Sun rely on multi-core technology. This technical shift from ILP (instruction-level parallelism) to TLP (thread-level parallelism) will reshape the design of future microprocessors. In this course, we will cover both ILP and TLP techniques. The topics we cover include adaptive dynamic branch prediction, high-bandwidth instruction fetch, dynamic scheduling, multiple issue, speculation, multithreading, symmetric multiprocessors, distributed shared memory multiprocessors, synchronization and consistency, and cache and memory hierarchy designs.

▣ Professor : Lynn Choi( lchoi@korea.ac.kr, Engineering Bldg, #411, 3290-3249)

▣ Assistant : HanJun Bae(qwerty2901@korea.ac.kr, Engineering Bldg, #236, 3290-3896)

▣ Time(Place) : Wednesday(1-2) Innoavtion building, #205

▣ Textbook : "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach", John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, Morgan Kaufmann, 5th Edition, 2012

▣ Reference book : A Collection of Research Papers

▣ Bulitin Board : http://it.korea.ac.kr/engine/index.php?mid=class_notice

▣ Class notice