University of West Attica
Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering
Advanced Computer Architecture
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P1-6210
8th
Compulsory for Direction
Hardware and Computer Systems
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2 Lec – 1 T – 1 Lab
Ioannis Voyiatzis (Faculty), Spyridon Matiatos (Faculty), Konstantinos Efstathiou (Faculty)
Description
Instruction Set Architectures of RISC processors. Mips pipeline implementation – data hazards, control/branch hazards, dependencies, result forwarding, stall, delayed branch. Memory-hierarchy organization – cache memories. Instruction-level parallelism – superscalar processors, VLIW, out of order execution, register renaming, branch prediction.
I/O. Hardware interrupts. Modern processors. Clusters – interconnection networks.