This lecture covers advanced concepts in computer architecture. Beside classical concepts like processor design and manufacturing, performance evaluation and optimization, and computer arithmetic new trends are discussed like low power-design. Low-power design is essential in mobile computing and communication which is expected to be a dominating application of microprocessors in a few years.

Computation power is increasing by exploiting parallelism on all levels of computation. We discuss instruction-level parallelism and mulitprocessor systems in this course.

The lecture provides a solid background for the lectures

• Design & Test of Systems-on-a-Chip
• Hardware Verification
• Self-Testable Systems
• Fault Tolerant Systems

Material for the lecture and exercises will be available here when the course once started.

Lecture: Prof. H.-J. Wunderlich
Exercises: Rainer Dorsch

• Exercises at May 18th are relocated to room 2.026

• Low power: ?
• Arithmetic pipelines: John Paul Hayes, Computer Organization
• Arithmetic: Kohren, Computer arithmetic
• Superscalar computers: Hennessy, Patterson, Computer Architecture a quantitative approach
• Multiprocessors:
  • Flynn, Computer Architecture,
  • Culler, Singh, Gupta, Modern Parallel Computer Architecture, Morgan-Kaufmann, 1999