Advanced Computer Architecture

Instructor:

Mr. Tran Ngoc Thinh, Ph.D

Department of Computer Engineering,

Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering
Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology
268 Ly Thuong Kiet street, Dictrict 10, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam.

Phone: (+84)(8) 3864 7256 (Ext. 5843)
Fax: (+84)(8) 864 5137

Email: tnthinh (at) cse (dot) hcmut (dot) edu (dot) vn

Course Description:

This course introduces classification of the computer system and performance evaluation - Memory: memory hierarchy, virtual memory, cache, shared memory - Pipeline and techniques to increase performance pipeline - Computer RISC and superscalar -computers for parallel processing (SIMD, MIMD Computer).

Textbook:

[1] J.Hennessy, D.Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Morgan Kaufman, 2004

[2] Kai Hwang, Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability, Programmability, McGraw-Hill, 1993

[3] W. Stallings, Computer Organization and Architecture, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006

[4] D. Patterson, J. Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design, Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 2005

[5] Kai Hwang, F.A.Brigss, Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing, McGraw-Hill, 1989.

Evaluation:

• 20% Homeworks
• 20% Presentation
• 20% Midterm exam
• 40% Final exam

Lecture Material

• Lecture 1
• Lecture 2 (MIPS Ref)
• Lecture 3
• Lecture 4, Lecture 4-part2
• Lecture 5
• Lecture 6

Homeworks:

• Performance (Class Quiz, in Sept, 2015)
• RISC vs. CISC (reading assignment, due on Sep 19, 2015)
• Some references: RISC vs CISC Still Matters, Post RISC, Evolution of RISC at IBM
• MIPS Assembly-new updated (due on Oct 03, 2015, MARS_Tutorial)
• Virtual Memory Reading Assignment (Replacement, Segmentation, and Protection in textbook [1], 45-minute Presentation on Nov 07, 2015)
• Cache_assignments (due on Nov 20, 2015),