Computer Architecture - CS8491, CS6303

BASIC STRUCTURE OF A COMPUTER SYSTEM

=> Eight Ideas
=> Components of a Computer System
=> Technology in Computer Architecture
=> Computer Architecture: Performance
=> Computer Architecture: Power Wall
=> Uniprocessors to Multiprocessors
=> Computer Architecture: Instructions
=> Computer Architecture: Operations and Operands
=> Computer Architecture: Representing Instructions
=> Computer Architecture: Logical and Control Operations
=> Computer Architecture: Addressing and Addressing Modes

ARITHMETIC FOR COMPUTERS

=> Arithmetic Operations: Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU)
=> Arithmetic Operations: Addition and Subtraction
=> Arithmetic Operations: Multiplication
=> Arithmetic Operations: Division
=> Floating Point Operations
=> Arithmetic Operations: Sub Word Parallelism

PROCESSOR AND CONTROL UNIT

=> Basic MIPS Implementation
=> Building Data Path and Control Implementation Scheme
=> Pipelining
=> Pipelined Data Path and Control
=> Handling Data Hazards & Control Hazards
=> Exceptions in Processor and Control Unit

PARALLELISM

=> Instruction-Level-Parallelism
=> Parallel Processing Challenges
=> Flynn's Classification
=> Hardware in Parallelism

MEMORY AND IO SYSTEMS

=> Memory Hierarchy
=> Memory Technologies
=> Cache Basics
=> Measuring and Improving Cache Performance
=> Virtual Memory
=> TLBS- Input/Output System
=> Programmed I/O
=> DMA and Interrupts
=> I/O Processors
=> Glossary - Computer Architecture

CS6303

OVERVIEW and INSTRUCTIONS

=> Eight Ideas
=> Components of a Computer System
=> Technology in Computer Architecture
=> Computer Architecture: Performance
=> Computer Architecture: Power Wall
=> Uniprocessors to Multiprocessors
=> Computer Architecture: Instructions
=> Computer Architecture: Operations and Operands
=> Computer Architecture: Representing Instructions
=> Computer Architecture: Logical and Control Operations
=> Computer Architecture: Addressing and Addressing Modes

ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS

=> Arithmetic Operations: Arithmetic and Logic Unit (ALU)
=> Arithmetic Operations: Addition and Subtraction
=> Arithmetic Operations: Multiplication
=> Arithmetic Operations: Division
=> Floating Point Operations
=> Arithmetic Operations: Sub Word Parallelism