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- From: yamashita@ulsi.flab.fujitsu.co.jp (Koichi Yamashita)
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- Subject: ISSCC93 Short Course
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- The First Annual ISSCC Short Course
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- INTRODUCTION to COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
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- February 23, 1993
- San Francisco Marriott Hotel
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- Course Objective: This course is a tutorial on computer architecture.
- No prior knowledge of the subject is assumed. Upon completion of the
- course the attendee will understand the basic issues facing the
- computer architect as well as the likely directions of future computer
- architectural developments.
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- Who Should Take This Course: Individuals with little or no background
- in computer architecture who are working in design or managing design
- of microprocessor components or systems.
-
- Course Outline:
- Overview (Jouppi)
- Introduction: (Storage Hierarchy Overview, Bandwidth vs. Latency
- Performance Equation, Amdahl's Law). Instruction-Set Architectures
- (Load Store vs. Memory, Memory Addressing, RISC vs. CISC Case Study).
- Micro Architecture (Datapaths, Pipelining, Hazards and Interlocks,
- Interrupts and Traps). System Issues (I/O; Disks and Networks,
- Busses).
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- Memory Hierarchy Design (Przybylski)
- Performance Revisited. Cache Design Basics. Organization (Miss Ratio
- vs. Cache Size, Set Associativity and Block Size). Impact of Cache
- Design (Performance vs. Size and Associatively). On-Chip Cache Design
- Issues. Secondary Cache Issues. Virtual Memory (Address Translation
- Basics, Translation) Lookaside Buffer (TLB), TLB and Cache
- Interaction).
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- SuperScaler and Parallel Processors (Horowitz)
- Machine Performance (Good RISC CPI, Pushing CPI below 1). Instruction,
- Loop and Task-Level Parallelism. SuperScaler Design (Structure,
- Instruction Fetch/Issue, Speedups and Complexities).
- Parallel Processors (Vector, Distributed and Shared Memory Machines).
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- The Instructors:
- Norman P. Jouppi received BSEE and MSEE from Northwestem University in
- 1979 and 1980, respectively. He received the PhD in Electrical
- Engineering from Stanford University in 1984. Since 1984, he has been
- a member of research staff, DEC Western Research Lab and a Consulting
- Assistant Professor in the Stanford EE Department. From 1981 to 1984
- he was a principal architect and implementor of the MIPS processor at
- Stanford. From 1985 to 1988 he was the principal architect and
- implementor of the MultiTitan CPU. His current research includes
- computer architecture, VLSI design, BiCMOS circuit design, and VLSI
- CAD tools.
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- Steven Przybylski is a consultant on system architecture, product
- planning, and memory hierarchy. He received a BASc from the
- University of Toronto in 1980 and the MSEE and PhD from Stanford in
- 1988 and 1982, respectively. At Stanford, he designed much of the
- original MIPS microprocessor. His PhD research was on cache and
- memory hierarchy design. He has written a book and numerous papers on
- cache design, RISC CPU architecture, and systems design. As one of
- the founders of MIPS Computer Systems, he played a key role in the
- development of the MIPS architecture and the implementation of the
- R20O0 RISC processor and associated systems.
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- Mark Horowitz is Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at
- Stanford University. His research interest is digital integrated
- circuit design. He has lead processor design projects at Stanford,
- including MIPS-X, an early on-chip instruction cache, and TORCH, a
- statically-scheduled superscaler processor. He has also been part of
- the DASH multiprocessor project that produced a 64-processor
- shared-memory multiprocessor.
-
- For information, call Dick Hester on 515-294-7686 or send e-mail to
- hester@iastate.edu.
-
- ISSCC93 Short Course Registration Fee:
- $250 (Course materials and lunch included)
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- Koichi Yamashita (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.)
- Assistant to Secretary, ISSCC93 Far East Program Committee
- e-mail: yamashita@flab.fujitsu.co.jp
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