CS752 Reader1

This reader may still change slightly, and, if so, I will send email notice of changes. Links need to be verified.

H&P is John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Fourth Edition, 2006.

HJ&S is Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, and Gurindar S. Sohi, Readings in Computer Architecture, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000.

Technology, Cost, Performance, Power, etc.

• H&P Chapter 1
• Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). URL: http://www.specbench.org/. Read the "run and reporting rules" for SPEC CPU2006 and SPEC jAppServer2004. You may skim the rest of the web site.
• ITRS Roadmap -- Executive Summary, Go to URL http://www.itrs.net/Links/2005ITRS/Home2005.htm and click on Executive Summary, 89 pages. Read Introduction (pp. 1-10) and flip through Grand Challenges (pp. 11-18), reading, at least, titles. Study the trends in the Overall Roadmap Technology Characteristics (pp. 59-85). Don't try to memorize the tables. Rather, identify key facts and trends. Such as "what is the overall scaling trend?" and "what is the target yield range for volume production?".
• Gordon E. Moore, Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits, Electronics, April 1965. Reprinted in HJ&S pp. 56-59. To be reviewed
• Ethan Mollick, MIT Sloan School of Management, Establishing Moore's Law, IEEE Annals of Computing, July-September 2006 (Vol. 28, No. 3) pp. 62-75, IEEE Xplore link. Reference reading
• David A. Patterson, Latency lags bandwith, Communications of the ACM, October 2004. Online PDF for University of Wisconsin only. To be reviewed

Instruction Sets

• H&P Appendix B.
• William A. Wulf. Compilers and Computer Architecture, IEEE Computer, July 1981. Reprinted in HJ&S pp. 119-125. Reference reading
• Robert Colwell et al. Instructions Sets and Beyond: Computers, Complexity, and Concurrency. IEEE Computer, September 1985. Reprinted in HJ&S pp. 144-155. To be reviewed
• Burger et al. Scaling to end of Silicon with EDGE architectures. IEEE Computer, July 2004. PDF download. To be reviewed
• J. S. Emer and D. W. Clark. A Characterization of Processor Performance in the VAX-11/780, ISCA 1984, Reprinted in HJ&S pp. 101-110. Portal.acm online. To be reviewed
• B. Sprunt. Pentium 4 performance-monitoring features, IEEE Micro, July 2002. IEEE Xplore link. Reference reading
• IA-32 Intel(R) Architecture Software Developer's Manual, Volume 1: Basic Architecture. Online PDF for University of Wisconsin only., 476 pages (reference). Reference reading

Pipelining and pipeline analysis

• H&P Appendix A has a review.
• Dan Ernst, et al., A Low-Power Pipeline Based on Circuit-Level Timing Speculation, MICRO 2003 PDF download To be reviewed
• Hartstein and Puzak, Optimum Power/Performance Pipeline Depth, MICRO 2003. PDF download To be reviewed
• Hrishikesh et al., The Optimum Logic Depth Per Pipeline Stage is 6 to 8 FO4 Inverter Delays, ISCA 2002. PDF download Reference reading

Dynamic ILP

• H&P Chapter 2 and 3.1-3.3
• Gurindar S. Sohi and S. Vajapeyam. Instruction Issue Logic for High-Performance, Interruptible, Multiple Functional Unit, Pipelined Computers, ISCA 1987. Reprinted in HJ&S pp. 244-251. To be reviewed
• T-Y. Yeh and Y. Patt. Two-level Adaptive Training Branch Prediction, ISCA 1991. Reprinted in HJ&S pp. 228-237. To be reviewed
• Seznec, A., Felix, S., Krishnan, V., and Sazeides, Y. Design tradeoffs for the alpha EV8 conditional branch predictor. ISCA 2002. IEEE Xplore link To be reviewed
• Tse-Yu Yeh and Patt, Y.N. Alternative Implementations of Two-Level Adaptive Branch Prediction. ISCA 1992 IEEE Xplore link Reference reading
• Sethumadhavan et al., Scalable Hardware Memory Disambiguation for High-ILP Processors, MICRO 2003. PDF download To be reviewed
• J. E. Smith and A. R. Pleszkun. Implementing Precise Interrupts in Pipelined Processors, IEEE Trans. on Computers, May 1988. Reprinted in HJ&S pp. 202-213. Reference reading
• Kenneth C. Yeager. The MIPS R10000 Superscalar Microprocessor, IEEE Micro, April 1996. Reprinted in HJ&S pp. 275-287. To be reviewed
• D. Papworth. Tuning the Pentium Pro Architecture, IEEE Micro, April 1996. Reprinted in HJ&S pp. 660-667. Reference reading
• Robert E. Kessler. The Alpha 21264 Microprocessor, IEEE Micro, March/April 1999, (Vol. 19, No. 2), pp. 24-36. IEEE Xplore link Reference reading
• Simcha Gochman, Ronny Ronen, Ittai Anati, Ariel Berkovits, Tsvika Kurts, Alon Naveh, Ali Saeed, Zeev Sperber, Robert C. Valentine, The Intel (R) Pentium(R) M Processor: Microarchitecture and Performance Intel Technology Journal, May 2003. PDF download Reference reading
• Timothy J. Slegel, et al., IBM's S/390 G5 Microprocessor, IEEE Micro, Mar/Apr 1999, IEEE Xplore link Reference reading
• Borch et al., Loose Loops Sink Chips, HPCA 2002, IEEE Xplore link Reference reading

Caches

• H&P Chapter 5.
• Norman P. Jouppi. Improving Direct-Mapped Cache Performance by the Addition of a Small Fully-Associative Cache and Prefetch Buffers, ISCA 1990 , Reprinted in HJ&S pp. 395-404. To be reviewed
• Norman P. Jouppi and Steven J.E. Wilton. Tradeoffs in two-level on-chip caching. ISCA 1994. ACM link. Reference reading
• David H. Albonesi, Selective Cache Ways: On-demand Cache Resource Allocation, MICRO 1999. IEEE Xplore link To be reviewed
• Changkyu Kim, Doug Burger, and Stephen W. Keckler. An Adaptive, Non-Uniform Cache Structure for Wire-Dominated On-Chip Caches, ASPLOS 2002 PDF download To be reviewed

Miscellaneous

• Arthur W. Burks, Herman H. Goldstine, John von Neumann. Preliminary discussion of the logical design of an electronic computing instrument, Report to the U.S. Army Ordinance Department, 1946. Reprinted as Chapter 4 of Bell and Newell, Computer Structures: Readings and Examples, McGraw-Hill, 1971. URL: Chapter 4 of http://www.research.microsoft.com/users/gbell/Computer_Structures__Readings_and_Examples/ (reference).

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