| Date
| Topic
| Reading
| Reviews
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| 6-Sep
| Intro, What is Computer Architecture, Technology Trends, Performance
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| 8-Sep
| ISA overview
| Instructions Sets and Beyond: Computers, Complexity, and Concurrency. IEEE Computer, September 1985.
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| 13-Sep
| Microarch basics
| CH1. Synthesis Lecture: Processor Microarchitecture: An Implementation Perspective (Access from UW-network only)
| Power Struggles: Revisiting the RISC vs. CISC Debate on Contemporary ARM and x86 Architectures, HPCA 2013
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| 15-Sep
| Pin demo/Chisel demo
| Chisel tutorial
| The Optimum Logic Depth Per Pipeline Stage is 6 to 8 FO4 Inverter Delays, ISCA 2002
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| 20-Sep
| Multi-issue, OOO execution
| CH3,CH4. Synthesis Lecture: Processor Microarchitecture: An Implementation Perspective (Access from UW-network only)
| Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits, Electronics, April 1965
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| 22-Sep
| gem5 demo 1
| none
| Instruction Issue Logic for High-Performance, Interruptible, Multiple Functional Unit, Pipelined Computers
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| 27-Sep
| Branch Prediction
| CH5,CH6, CH7, CH8. Synthesis Lecture: Processor Microarchitecture: An Implementation Perspective (Access from UW-network only)
| Architecture Simulators Considered Harmful
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| 29-Sep
| gem5 demo 2
| A Graph-Based Program Representation for Analyzing Hardware Specialization Approaches. Computer Architecture Letters, 10, 2015
| Alternative Implementations of Two-Level Adaptive Branch Prediction
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| 4-Oct
| Memory Disambiguation
| Dynamic speculation and synchronization of data dependences
| Dynamic Branch Prediction with Perceptrons
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| 6-Oct
| Caches, multi-level caches, NUCA
| CH2. Synthesis Lecture: Processor Microarchitecture: An Implementation Perspective (Access from UW-network only)
| Fire-and-Forget: Load/Store Scheduling with No Store Queue at All
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| 11-Oct
| Caches, multi-level caches, NUCA
| CH1, CH2, CH4. Synthesis Lecture: Processor Microarchitecture: An Implementation Perspective (Access from UW-network only)
| The MIPS R10000 Superscalar Microprocessor
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| 13-Oct
| OOO policies
| CH5. Synthesis Lecture: Processor Microarchitecture: An Implementation Perspective (Access from UW-network only)
| Executing a program on the MIT tagged-token dataflow architecture
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| 18-Oct
| OOO policies
| CH6. Synthesis Lecture: Processor Microarchitecture: An Implementation Perspective (Access from UW-network only)
| A Characterization of Processor Performance in the VAX-11/780
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| 20-Oct
| OOO policies
| CH7. Synthesis Lecture: Processor Microarchitecture: An Implementation Perspective (Access from UW-network only)
| Improving the Energy Efficieny of Big Cores
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| 25-Oct
| OOO policies
| CH8. Synthesis Lecture: Processor Microarchitecture: An Implementation Perspective (Access from UW-network only)
| Triggered Instructions: A Control Paradigm for Spatially-Programmed Architectures
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| 27-Oct
| zsim demo. McPAT demo
| ZSim: fast and accurate microarchitectural simulation of thousand-core systems
| Analyzing Behavior Specialized Acceleration, ASPLOS 2016
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| 1-Nov
| Prefetching (L1, L2)
| Synthesis Lecture: A Primer on Prefetching
| Efficient Embedded Computing
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| 3-Nov
| Virtual memory/TLB
| none
| A Prefetch Taxonomy
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| 8-Nov
| Virtual memory/TLB
| none
| Virtual Memory on Contemporary Processors, IEEE Micro, vol. 18, no. 4, 1998
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| 10-Nov
| DRAM/memory controllers
| The Memory System: You Can't Avoid It, You Can't Ignore It, You Can't Fake It
| Agile Paging: Exceeding the Best of Nested and Shadow Paging
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| 15-Nov
| Power analysis
| CH1, CH2: Synthesis Lecture on Power
| Fundamental Latency Trade-offs in Architecting DRAM Cache
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| 17-Nov
| DRAMSim, Performance counters demo
| none
| McPAT: An Integrated Power, Area, and Timing Modeling Framework for Multicore and Manycore Architectures
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| 22-Nov
| Vector processing/SIMD
| none
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| 24-Nov
| Thanksgiving
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| 29-Nov
| GPU
| GPUs and the Future of Parallel Computing
| The Cray-1 Computer System, Communications of the ACM, January 1978
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| 1-Dec
| VLIW
| Very Long Instruction Word architectures and the ELI-512
| Many-core vs. many-thread machines: Stay away from the valley
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| 6-Dec
| Accelerators 1
| Understanding sources of inefficiency in general-purpose chips
| Pushing the Limits of Accelerator Efficiency While Retaining General-Purpose Programmability
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| 8-Dec
| Accelerators 2
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| ASIC Clouds: Specializing the Datacenter
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| 13-Dec
| Project Presentations
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| 15-Dec
| Project Presentations
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