AP7001 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND PARALLEL PROCESSING - ANNA UNIV PG 1ST SEM SYLLABUS
| ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI REGULATIONS - 2013 M.E. APPLIED ELECTRONICS AP7001 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND PARALLEL PROCESSING OBJECTIVES: To understand the difference between the pipeline and parallel concepts. To study the various types of architectures and the importance of scalable architectures. To study the various memories and optimization of memory . UNIT I COMPUTER DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE MEASURES Fundamentals of Computer Design – Parallel and Scalable Architectures – Multiprocessors – Multivector and SIMD architectures – Multithreaded architectures – Data-flow architectures - Performance Measures UNIT II PARALLEL PROCESSING, PIPELINING AND ILP Instruction Level Parallelism and Its Exploitation - Concepts and Challenges - Overcoming Data Hazards with Dynamic Scheduling – Dynamic Branch Prediction - Speculation - Multiple Issue Processors - Performance and Efficiency in Advanced Multiple Issue Processors UNIT III MEMORY HIERARCHY DESIGN Memory Hierarchy - Memory Technology and Optimizations – Cache memory – Optimizations of Cache Performance – Memory Protection and Virtual Memory - Design of Memory Hierarchies UNIT IV MULTIPROCESSORS Symmetric and distributed shared memory architectures – Cache coherence issues - Performance Issues – Synchronization issues – Models of Memory Consistency - Interconnection networks – Buses, crossbar and multi-stage switches. UNIT V MULTI-CORE ARCHITECTURES Software and hardware multithreading – SMT and CMP architectures – Design issues – Case studies – Intel Multi-core architecture – SUN CMP architecture – IBM cell architecture - hp architecture. TOTAL : 45 PERIODS REFERENCES: 1. Kai Hwang, "Advanced Computer Architecture", McGraw Hill International, 2001. 2. John L. Hennessey and David A. Patterson, "Computer Architecture – A quantitative approach", Morgan Kaufmann / Elsevier, 4th. edition, 2007. 3. William Stallings, "Computer Organization and Architecture – Designing for Performance", Pearson Education, Seventh Edition, 2006. 4. John P. Hayes, "Computer Architecture and Organization", McGraw Hill 5. David E. Culler, Jaswinder Pal Singh, "Parallel Computing Architecture: A hardware/ software approach", Morgan Kaufmann / Elsevier, 1997. 6. Dimitrios Soudris, Axel Jantsch, "Scalable Multi-core Architectures: Design Methodologies and Tools", Springer, 2012 7. John P. Shen, "Modern processor design. Fundamentals of super scalar processors", Tata McGraw Hill 2003. |
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