Electrical Engineering Department
Faculty of Engineering
Alexandria University
CC 423: Advanced Computer Architectures
Lecturer: Dr. Mohammed Morsy Farag
Overview
This course introduces design principles of modern computer architecture.
Teaching Load (Spring 2017):
- Lectures (3 hours), Tutorials (1 hours)
Office Hours: Saturday from 10:30AM to 12:00PM.
Teaching Assistant: Eng. Fatma Anwar
Course work and assesment (100 marks):
- Homework Assignments:
- 10 marks
- Project: You can choose only one of the following three projects
- Midterm exam
- 20 marks
- Final Exam
- 40 marks
CAD Tools to be used are:
Active HDL Student Edition
https://www.aldec.com/en/products/fpga_simulation/active_hdl_student
Modelsim Student Edition
https://www.mentor.com/company/higher_ed/modelsim-student-edition
Course Outline
- Design principles associated with modern parallel computer architectures
- Overview of Pipelining and memory hierarchy
- Processor Design using Hardware Description Languages
- Instruction Level Parallelism
- Data-Level Parallelism in Vector, SIMD, and GPU Architectures
- Thread-Level Parallelism
Resources
- Textbook:
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“Computer architecture: a quantitative approach.”, Patterson, David A., and John L. Hennessy. 5th ed
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- Supplementary References:
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“Computer organization and design: the hardware/software interface”, Patterson, David A., and John L. Hennessy. 5th ed
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“Digital Design and Computer Architecture”, David Harris, Sarah Harris, 2nd Edition
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| Lecture 1 | Introcuction | [PDF] |
| Lecture 2 | Overview and Background | [PDF] |
| Lecture 3 | Pipelining Review | [PDF] |
| Lecture 4 | SystemVerilog | [PDF] |
| Lecture 5 | Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP): Static Techniques | [PDF] |
| Lecture 6 | ILP: Branch Prediction | [PDF] |
| Lecture 7 | ILP:
Dynamic Scheduling Tomasulo Algorithm Examples |
[PDF],
[PDF] [1],[2],[3] |
| Lecture 8 | ILP:
Speculative Execution Speculative Tomasulo Examples |
[PDF] [1],[2] |
| Lecture 9 | ILP: Multiple Issue Processor | [PDF] |
| Lecture 10 | ILP: Limits to ILP | [PDF] |
| Lecture 11 | Thread Level Parallelsim | [PDF] |
| Lecture 12 | Multiprocessor and Parallel Programs | [PDF] |
| Lecture 13 | Shared Memory Multiprocessor and Cache Memory Review | [PDF] |
| Lecture 14 | Cache Coherence |
[PDF] [PDF] |
| Lecture 15 | Directory-Based Protocols | [PDF] |
| Lecture 16 | Shared Memory Synchronization | [PDF] |
| Sheet 1 | Modern Processor Design Principles | [PDF] |
| Sheet 2 | Pipelined Processor Review |
[PDF] [PDF] |
| Sheet 3 | Instruction-Level Parallelism | [PDF] |
| Sheet 4 | Thread-Level Parallalism and Multicore processors | [PDF] |
| Mid-term Exams | 2017 |
| Final Exams | 2017 |
- The course has started on Tuesday 11/2/2017.