Weekly outline

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  Assessment

  Homeworks	10%
  Midterm	05%
  Participation in activities	35%
  Final exam (open book)	50%

   

  To benefit from the course please

  • read through the material before coming to class,
  • come prepared with your questions,
  • get involved in the discussion, and
  • complete all the assignments.

  • News forum
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  11 February - 17 February

  Introduction and general background

  Homework 1 given

  • What is Computer Architecture? File
  • Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits File
  • Design of Ion-Implanted MOSFET'S with Very Small Physical Dimensions File
  • Homework 1 File
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  18 February - 24 February

  Homework 2 given

  • Measuring performance File
  • The processor's structure File
  • The evolution of RISC technology at IBM File
  • Looking back on the language and hardware revolutions: measured power, performance, and scaling File
  • Dark Silicon and the End of Multicore Scaling File
  • Homework 2 File
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  25 February - 3 March

  Multicore processors

   

  Homework 1 due

  • Amdahl's Law in the Multicore Era File
  • Power Challenges May End the Multicore Era File
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  4 March - 10 March

  Consistency and Cache Coherence

   

  Homework 2 due

  • Time, clocks and the ordering of events in a distributed system File
  • How to make a multiprocessor computer that correctly executes multiprocess programs File
  • A Primer on Consistency and Cache Coherence (chapters 1 and 2) File
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  11 March - 17 March

  • A Primer on Consistency and Cache Coherence (chapters 3, 4, and 5) File
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  18 March - 24 March

  • A Primer on Consistency and Cache Coherence (chapters 6, 7, 8, and 9) File
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  25 March - 31 March

  Midterm

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  1 April - 7 April

  Energy

  • Thread criticality predictors for dynamic performance, power, and resource management in chip multiprocessors File
  • Energy-performance tradeoffs in processor architecture and circuit design: a marginal cost analysis File
  • Computing's Energy Problem (and what we can do about it) File
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  8 April - 14 April

  Accelerators and interconnects

  • The Accelerator Wall: Limits of Chip Specialization File
  • Ten Lessons From Three Generations Shaped Google's TPUv4i File
  • Bunch of Wires PHY Specification File
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  15 April - 21 April

  Other directions: memristors and in-memory computing

  • Digital Logic Implementation in Memristor-based Crossbars: A Tutorial File
  • The future of electronics based on memristive systems File
  • TAICHI: A tiled architecture for in-memory computing and heterogeneous integration File
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  22 April - 28 April

  Vacation

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  29 April - 5 May

  Other directions: energy harvesting

  • Mementos: system support for long-running computation on RFID-scale devices File
  • A Wireless Sensing Platform Utilizing Ambient RF Energy File
  • Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air File
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  6 May - 12 May

  Other directions: approximate computing

  • Approximate storage in solid-state memories File
  • General-purpose code acceleration with limited-precision analog computation File
  • Neural Acceleration for General Purpose Approximate Programs File
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  13 May - 19 May

  Other directions: further ideas

  • Optical Computing: A 60-Year Adventure File
  • Transformative Effects of IoT, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence on Cloud Computing: Evolution, Vision, Trends and Open Challenges File
  • Quantum Computing: An Overview Across the System Stack File