In this course you will learn:

• Evaluation of modern computer systems in a systematic and quantitative way.
• Advanced techniques used in modern CPU designs, such as advanced pipeline and
  superscalar CPUs, multi-core architecture, memory hierarchy, novel memory technologies, and I/O sub-systems.
• Covering platforms architecture used in embedded systems, personal computers, and high performance servers.

Class hours: Thursday, 0900 ~ 1200 (GMT+8)

Course schedule (tentative):

• Week 1: course introduction & trends in computer architecture design
• Week 2: fundamentals of performance
• Week 3: Pipeline and techniques for improving ILP
• Week 4: Static & Dynamic techniques of improving ILP
• Week 5: Basics of memory hierarchy & caches
• Week 6: Advanced techniques for improving cache performance
• Week 7: Virtual memories
• Week 8: Midterm
• Week 9: memory technologies and optimizations I
• Week 10: Emerging memory technologies and their design issues
• Week 11: Research paper presentation I, and ILP approaches and memory system
• Week 12: Multi-processor systems and cache coherence issues
• Week 13: Full system simulation and gem5
• Week 14: Graphic processing units (GPUs)
• Week 15: Architectural designs for DNNs
• Week 16: Research paper presentation II
• Week 17: Final exam
• Week 18: Demo of term project