IIT Guwahati Advanced Computer Architecture Free Course with Certificate | IIT Certificate – Apply Now
| Duration : | 8 weeks |
| Start Date : | 21 Feb 2022 |
| End Date : | 15 Apr 2022 |
| Exam Date : | 24 Apr 2022 IST |
| Enrollment Ends : | 21 Feb 2022 |
| Category : | Computer Science and Engineering |
Applications and handheld devices play a major role in ensuring comfort in our day- today life. These applications run on handheld electronic gadgets with high-end microprocessor support. Modern CPU designers handle challenges imposed by these applications with cost effective architectural enhancements. This course provides a deeper insight into the design of high-end microprocessors that will support the future applications.
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Anyone in CSE and related fields (like ECE, EEE, IT etc.) with an interest of exploring Computer Architecture PREREQUISITES: A basic understanding of Computer Organisation and Architecture or Microprocessors
INDUSTRY SUPPORT: Intel, AMD, IBM, Nvidia etc.
Course layout :
Week 1: Review of Basic Computer Organization, Performance Evaluation Methods, Introduction to RISC Instruction Pipeline, Instruction Pipeline and Performance.
Week 2: Pipeline Hazards and Analysis, Branch Prediction, MIPS Pipeline for Multi-Cycle Operations.
Week 3: Compiler Techniques to Explore Instruction Level Parallelism, Dynamic Scheduling with Tomasulo’s Algorithm and Speculative Execution.
Week 4: Advanced Pipelining and Superscalar Processors, Exploiting Data Level Parallelism: Vector and GPU Architectures, Architectural Simulation using gem5.
Week 5: Introduction to Cache Memory, Block Replacement Techniques and Write Strategy, Design Concepts in Cache Memory.
Week 6: Basic and Advanced Optimization Techniques in Cache Memory, Cache Optimization using gem5.
Week 7: Introduction to DRAM System, DRAM Controllers and Address Mapping, Secondary Storage Systems, Design Concepts in DRAM and Hard Disk.
Week 8: Tiled Chip Multicore Processors(TCMP), Routing Techniques in Network on Chip(NoC), NoC Router Microarchitecture, TCMP and NoC: Design and Analysis, Future Trends in Computer Architecture Research.
