Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design ... Hazard detection and forwarding; memory hierarchy design; Cache memories, Virtual memory, ...

Hennessy and David A. Patterson described the present as the “golden age of computer architecture”. Compared to the early days of MS-DOS, when designing user- and kernel-space interactions was ...

As such, we will draw material from seminal and recent publications in top computer architecture conferences and journals. By exposing the students to state-of-the-art research, the course serves as ...