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 ...

An instruction set architecture (ISA) defines the set of basic operations a computer must support. This includes the functional definition of operations and precise descriptions of how to invoke and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlike Intel's and Nvidia's architecture, which we'll see shortly, these don't act as separate units – all matrix operations utilize the SIMD units and any such calculations (called Wave Matrix ...

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 ...

During the 1970s many different computer architectures were being developed, many of them focused on making computer systems easier and more effective to use. The Flex Machine developed at the UK M… ...