CCE 4001 – Advanced Computer Architecture

Credits: 4 ECTS

Lectures: 2 hrs/wk

Tutorials: 4 hrs

Prerequisite: CCE 2002

Lecturer: Dr Ing. Carl James Debono

Pipeline Architectures

· Techniques used to enhance throughput including: instruction lookahead, execution overlap (pipelining).

· Branching, data, and instruction dependencies.

· CISC, RISC and superscalar architectures.

· Fast multipliers and barrel shifters.

· Efficiency of pipeline hardware.

Parallel Architectures

· Parallel Processing.

· Parallel Architectures such as: Mesh, Star, Ring, Hypercube.

· Switching Elements.

· Arithmetic pipelines.

· Performance Considerations.

Assessment

Coursework – 10% Exam – 90%

Textbooks

· C. Hammacher, Z. Vranesic, S. Zaky, Computer Organization, McGraw Hill, ISBN: 0-07-112218-4.

· D. Sima, T. Fountain and P. Kacsuk, Advanced Computer Architectures, A Design Space Approach, Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 0-201-42291-3