JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD 
IV Year B.Tech. CSE -I Sem T P C 
4+1* 0 4 
ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE 

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Unit - I 

Fundamentals of Computer design- Technology trends- cost- measuring and reporting performance quantitative principles of computer design. 

Unit - II 

Instruction set principles and examples- classifying instruction set- memory addressing- type and size of operands- addressing modes for signal processing-operations in the instruction set- instructions for control flow- encoding an instruction set.-the role of compiler 

Unit - III 

Instruction level parallelism (ILP)- over coming data hazards- reducing branch costs –high performance instruction delivery- hardware based speculation- limitation of ILP 

Unit - IV 

ILP software approach- compiler techniques- static branch protection - VLIW approach - H.W support for more ILP at compile time- H.W verses S.W Solutions 

Unit - V 

Memory hierarchy design- cache performance- reducing cache misses penalty and miss rate – virtual memory- protection and examples of VM. 

Unit - VI 

Multiprocessors and thread level parallelism- symmetric shared memory architectures- distributed shared memory- Synchronization- multi threading. 

Unit - VII 

Storage systems- Types – Buses - RAID- errors and failures- bench marking a storage device- designing a I/O system. 

Unit - VIII 

Inter connection networks and clusters- interconnection network media – practical issues in interconnecting networks- examples – clusters- designing a cluster. 

TEXT BOOK : 

1. Computer Architecture A quantitative approach 3rd edition John L. Hennessy & David A. Patterson Morgan Kufmann (An Imprint of Elsevier) 

REFERENCES : 

1. “Computer Architecture and parallel Processing” Kai Hwang and A.Briggs International Edition McGraw-Hill. 
2. Advanced Computer Architectures, Dezso Sima, Terence Fountain, Peter Kacsuk, Pearson. 
3. Parallel Computer Architecture, A Hardware / Software Approach, David E. Culler, Jaswinder Pal singh with Anoop Gupta, Elsevier