| S. No. |
Date |
Lecture |
Slides |
References |
| 1 |
4th January |
Course policies, Overview of the course | ||
| 2 |
7th January |
Basics of OOO execution. Idea of branch
prediction. |
Processor
microarchitecture book Quantifying the complexity of superscalar processors |
|
| 3 |
11th January |
Idea of renaming. Started branch prediction.
|
OOO
Execution - I |
Just the slides and relevant background till this point |
| 4 |
18th January |
Branch Prediction |
Two level
prediction, Two level
prediction-II, Agree
predictor, General
techniques, Three level
adaptive |
|
| 5 |
21st January |
BTBs and Renaming |
OOO - II |
|
| 6 |
25th January |
Renaming and Select |
Design
space of renaming techniques |
|
| 7 |
28th January |
Broadcast, Wakeup, and Bypass |
||
| 8 |
1st Feb |
Load-Store Queue and Commit |
Optimized
Load Store Queue |
|
| 9 |
4th Feb |
Commit and Recovery |
||
| 10 |
8th Feb |
Pipelines with rename buffers |
||
| 11 |
15th Feb |
Replay |
OOO-III | Scheduling and Replay |
| 12 |
18th Feb |
Selective Replay and Aggressive Speculation |
Load
store speculation, store sets, dynamic
dependence tracking, memory
cloaking and bypassing |
|
| 13 |
22nd Feb |
Background: SRAMs, DRAMs, caches |
link
to slides (Chapter 6) |
|
| 14 |
25th Feb |
Types of misses, victim cache, critical word
first and early restart |
Predecoding |
|
| 15 |
7th Mar |
Prefetching: Next line, Markov, CGP |
Inst.
Prefetching |
CGP,
Markov |
| 16 |
14th Mar |
Inst. Prefetching: PIF, RDIP, Trace Caches
(P4) |
PIF,
RDIP, Trace
cache patent |
|
| 17 |
17th Mar |
Data Prefetching |
Data
Prefetching |
Survey,
Runahead
Execution |
| 18 |
31st Mar |
Cache Design |
Caches |
Cacti
Report, Multi
core memory systems (book) |
| 19 |
2nd Apr |
NUCA Schemes |
S-NUCA,
R-NUCA |
|
| 20 |
4th Apr |
Routing in NoCs |
Routing |
On
chip networks (book) |
| 21 |
7th Apr |
Flow Control and Router Micro-architecture |
Flow
Control Router Micro-arch |
|
| 22 |
11th Apr |
Router Micro-Architecture |
Allocator
Implementations |
|
| 23 |
18th Apr |
Multiprocessor Systems |
link
to slides (Chapter 11) |
|
| 24 |
21 Apr |
Coherence and Consistency (basics) |
Primer
on Cache Coherence and Memory Consistency(book) |
|
| 25 |
25 Apr |
Vector Processors and Directory Coherence |
Directory Coherence | |
| 26 |
28 Apr |
Memory Consistency |
Memory
Consistency Models |
A Formal Hierarchy of Weak Memory Models (link) Tutorial on Shared Memory Models (link) |
| 27 |
30 Apr |
Transactional Memory |
Transactional Memory | Transactional Memory (book) |
| 28 |
2nd May |
Final Wrap Up |
|
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