ECE 452: Computer Organization and Architecture Course Overview, Study notes of Computer Architecture and Organization

Download ECE 452: Computer Organization and Architecture Course Overview and more Study notes Computer Architecture and Organization in PDF only on Docsity! ECE 452: Computer Organization and Architecture - ECE251 Pre-requisites: Microprocessors Addressing Modes Assembly Language Memory and I/O - Understands basic microprocessor memory and I/O system organization - Understands basic structure of a microprocessor - Understands different addressing modes for operands in instructions - Able to program in assembly language - Can analyze I/O system performance - Can design to latency and bandwidth constraints - Can determine effective memory access latencies under a hierarchical memory system - Can exploit instruction level parallelism with pipelining to accelerate executions; plus basic hazards handling and branch prediction techniques - Can design control paths using hardwired logic or microprogramming - Can design simple datapaths for common instructions - Can evaluate logic level hardware characteristics that would affect system performance I/O Memory Parallelism and Pipelining Control Paths Datapaths Logic-level Hardware Concepts: - Overview of computer organization - Hardware technology: CMOS, clock, timing - Microarchitecture design for supporting the instruction set architecture (datapath, control path) - Pipelined processor design Basic solutions for handling data, structural, and control hazards Basic branch prediction techniques - Memory System Memory hierarchy Cache memory design and performance Secondary memory Virtual memory: paging, swapping - I/O Systems I/O organization Bus systems (e.g., PCI) Applications: - Case studies of processor core architecture Tools: P.O.C.: Ricky Kwok IN OUT As of 12/9/08