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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...