CZ3001 : Advanced Computer Architecture

Learning Outcome

After completing the course, I have gained excellent understanding of pipelining and its implementation in assembly language and different types of parallelism and their strengths and weaknesses.

Coursework Assignment

• modified the 4-stage pipelined processor to include load word (lw) and store word(sw) instructions
• transformed it into a 5 stage pipelined processor
• analyzed the operation of 5 stage pipelined data path and
• simulated the LW and sw instructions along with rtype and addi instructions

Knowledge Accquired includes:

1. Overview of basic computer architecture

2. Instruction Set Architecture Design

3. Micro-architecture Design

4. Memory Systems and I/O Design

5. Instruction-Level Parallelism

6. Data-Level Parallelism

7. Thread-Level Parallelism

8. Emerging Computing Trends