Table of contentsCSCI 330 The Changing Face of Computer Architecture
Overview
Computer Science at a Crossroads
Instruction Set Architecture: Critical Interface
Example: MIPS RISC Architecture
Instruction Set Architecture
CS 252 Course Focus
ISA vs. Computer Architecture
Slide 9
Computer Architecture is an Integrated Approach
Computer Architecture is Design and Analysis
What Computer Architecture Brings to the Table
What Computer Architecture brings to Table
1) Taking Advantage of Parallelism
Pipelined Instruction Execution
Limits to pipelining
2) The Principle of Locality
Levels of the Memory Hierarchy
3) Focus on the Common Case
4) Amdahl’s Law
Amdahl’s Law example
5) Processor performance equation
What’s a Clock Cycle?
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