CSIE50300/IEE_52200 Advanced Computer Architecture

Spring 2010

Lecturer: Hsin-Chou Chi
Email: hcchi@mail.ndhu.edu.tw
Phone: 8632701
Fax: 8632700

Course Information

  • Class schedule: Thursday 9:10-12:00
  • Location: D301, Engineering Building
  • Course website: http://soc.csie.ndhu.edu.tw/source/adv_arch/ 
  • Textbook: Hennessy and Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
  • Grading: Midterm 40%, Final 40%, Quiz/Homework 20%, and extra credit for class participation

Course Outline

  • Review on ISA, pipelining, memory hierarchy, and virtual memory
  • Instruction level parallelism and dynamic execution
  • Static pipelining
  • Caches and memory systems
  • I/O and storages
  • Multiprocessors
  • Selected topics: network-on-chip architectures

Lecture Slides

 
hcchi@mail.ndhu.edu.tw