CMU-18640-Foundations-of-Computer-Architecture

This is the course taught by Prof.John Shen and Prof. Onur Mutlu from CMU

Course content

• Pipelined Processor
• RAW, WAR, WAW hazards
• Superscalar Implemetation
• Dynamic Branch Prediction
• Register Renaming
• Tomasulo's Algorithm
• Dynamic Scheduling and OOO Execution
• VLIW
• Multithreading and Multicore
• Memory Resource Management
• Interconnection Networks
• Heterogeneous System

Projects

• 1. Branch Prediction
  • Analysis of Tournament and Bi-mode Predictor
  • Implement gshare and YAGS Predictor
• 2. Modern Tomasulo’s Algorithm and Out-of-Order Execution
  • Model and simulate Modernized Tomasulo's Algorithm
  • Out of Order Model in Gem5
• 3. Real-life Cache Modeling
  • Implement cache replacement policy LFU LRU
  • Design a cache coherence protocol
  • Analyze coherence mechanism i.e. directory-based and snooping-based
• 4. Intel Compute Stick for computationally expensive tasks
  • Optimization of Matrix Matrix Multiply
  • OpenCV libraries for adge and line detection
  • Digit detect