Coe818 Advanced Computer Architecture

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Coe818 Advanced Computer Architecture

• OBJECTIVES
• Understand What is Used in Advanced Processor
• Why Industry is Using Multi-Core
• Performance Limitation and Challenges Facing
  Computers
• How can Applications Utilize Advanced Features in
  the Chip

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Multi-core How Multi-Core CommunicateWhy need
Cache CoherencyWhy need Synchronization
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What is Inside Single Core branch predictor,
dynamic scheduling and execution unit
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What is inside a single processor

• -Parallelism with Pipelining implementation,
  hazards, multi execution units and dynamic
  scheduling
• -Instruction Level Parallelism Loop unrolling,
  Superscalar and VLIW
• -Parallel Single operation on multiple data
  Vector Operations and MMX (SIMD)
• -Speculative Execution of Instructions Branch
  Prediction