Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations (e.g., ALU); Control design; Single cycle, multiple cycle and ...

Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach , Morgan Kaufmann ... Week 2: Instruction set architecture: implications and interaction with compilers. Week 3: Advanced Pipelining and ...

Prior knowledge needed: ECEA 5315 Concept and Practices, C Programming and Compilation Pipeline, Computer System Architecture, Operating Systems Concepts, Linux based Systems, C Programming and ...