Evaluation methodology/metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level parallelism, prediction-based techniques, alternative architectures (VLIW, Vector and SIMD), ...

Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

Results Students in the control group showed no improvement over the test period, whilst the students who had access to the computer significantly increased their knowledge base, both for material ...

Use mathematical skills to analyze the performance of computer systems/subsystems and to guide the design of a subsystem of a computer. For a given instruction set, design the data path and control ...

46,225 mm2 of silicon is exactly 215mm x 215 mm which would fit inside a circle of diameter 304mm which would be larger than one 300mm wafer. If you look at the image above the corners are curved ...

Basic Architecture of a microcontroller. The microcontroller 8051 is a CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) it has about 100 instructions and uses a typical 12MHZ clock. Microcontrollers are ...

“RISC architecture is gonna change everything.” Those absurdly geeky, incredibly prophetic words were spoken 30 years ago. Today, they’re somehow truer than ever.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery (www.acm.org), today named John L. Hennessy, former President of Stanford University, and David A. Patterson, retired Professor of the University of ...

x86 Architecture: This is a complex instruction set computer (CISC) architecture developed by Intel. It has been the king of personal computers (PCs) and workstations, known for its powerful ...

A computer processor uses a so-called Instruction Set Architecture to talk with the world outside of its own circuitry. This ISA consists of a number of instructions, which essentially define the f… ...