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Metrics and Evaluation
Latency,
Throughput,
Throughput 1 latency
22
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Introduction
What is computer architecture,
Moore s law,
What do computer architects try t...
9
cards
Pipelining
What is the canonical processor p...,
Why would cpi be greater than 1 i...,
Why might there be a stall in the...
14
cards
Branches
What are the requirements for bra...,
Equation for branch prediction ac...,
What percent of instructions are ...
30
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Predication
What is predication,
What to use predication vs branch...,
Should you use prediction on a fu...
13
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ILP: Instruction Level Parallelism
If you had an ideal processor it ...,
Why are false dependencies also c...,
Why would we duplicate register v...
10
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Instruction Scheduling
What do we use to take care of co...,
What do we use to take care of wa...,
What do we use to take care of ra...
16
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Reorder Buffer
What problem does the reorder buf...,
What actions can we and can we no...,
Big picture what does the reorder...
12
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Memory Ordering
What is memory ordering for,
What is a load store queue,
What is store to load forwarding
7
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Compiler ILP
How can the compiler help us impr...,
Tree height reduction,
Instruction scheduling
9
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VLIW
What is vliw,
Superscalar vs vliw processors,
Can vliw introduce code bloat
6
cards
Cache Review
Locality principle,
Two kinds of locality of memory r...,
What is the cache
27
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Virtual Memory
Translation lookaside buffer
1
cards
Advanced Caches
0
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Cache Coherence
What are the states and their bit...,
What are the state transitions in...,
What is local about local read an...
18
cards
Storage and Fault Tolerance
What does raid stand for,
What is a raid and what does it do,
What should a raid do
30
cards
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