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    Course Title : Advanced Computer Architecture

    Course Code : COM 608.3


    Semester : Second Semester
    Credit : 3
    Class Load : 3 hours
    Evaluation : Theory Practical Total
    Sessional 50 - 50
    Final 50 - 50
    Total 100 - 100

    Course Objective:
    To make the student familiar with the fundamentals of the technology behind the design
    and architectural aspects of computer system, processor organization, storage system
    organization, parallel processing and multiprocessing concepts, and performance
    measures.

    Course Contents:
    1. Fundamentals of Computer Design (5 hrs)
    Introduction, Technology trends; Cost, Price and their trends; Measuring Performances,
    amdhal’s law; Quantitative issues.

    2. Instruction Set Architecture (6 hrs)


    Classification, Memory Addressing and modes, Type and size of operands, Operations in
    the instruction set, Control flow instruction, booths algorithm, retstore division algorithm,
    Instruction set encoding.

    3. Memory and Storage System (12 hrs)


    Basic Concepts of Memory, Internal Organization of Memory Devices, Cache Memory,
    locality principle, Cache Miss Penalty and Reducing Cache Misses, Reducing Cache Hit
    Time, Main Memory, contagious and non contagious memory, Virtual Memory, Issues in
    the Design of Memory Hierarchies, Fallacies and Pitfalls in the Design of Memory
    Hierarchies. Storage Systems, Types of Storage Devices, Busses, I/O Performance
    Measures, Reliability, Availability and RAID, Interfacing to Processor, Memory and OS,
    Designing an I/O System, Unix File System Performance.

    4. Pipelining and Parallelism (12 hrs)


    Basic concepts of Pipelining, DLX Pipeline, Pipeline Hazards, Data and Control Hazards,
    Difficulties in Implementation, Instruction Set Design and Pipelining, Concepts and
    Challenges of Instruction Level Parallelism, Overview of Data Hazards with Dynamic
    Scheduling, Reducing Branch Penalties with Dynamic Hardware Prediction, super scalar
    and super pipelining, ILP with Multiple Issue, Hardware Support for Extracting More
    Parallelism, Exploiting ILP with software approaches

    5. Multiprocessors and Thread level Parallelism (6 hrs)


    Multiprocessing and characteristicsof application domain, Symmetric Shared-
    Memory Architectures, Distributed Shared-Memory Architectures, Performance
    Metrics, Synchronization, Multithreading and related issues, cloud, cluster and
    grid computing

    6. Interconnection and Cluster Computing (4 hrs)


    Interconnection requirements, Issues for interconnection networks, Clusters;
    Cluster design and other trends, performance measures.

    References

    1. J. L. Henessy and D.A. Patterson, Computer Architecture – A Quantitative Approach,


    Third Edition, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
    2. V. C. Hammacher, Z. G. Vranesic, and S. G. Zaky, Computer Organization, McGraw
    Hills
    3. K. Hawang, Advanced Computer Architecture, McGraw Hills
    4. J. L. Hennessy and D.A. Patterson, Computer Organization and Design, Second Edition,
    Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
    D. Sima, T. Fountain, and P. Kacsak, Advanced Computer Architecture – A Design Space
    Approach, Addison Wesley

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