BIT 455

ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

(ELECTIVE –IV)

Instruction  per Week                                                                                                4  Periods
Duration of University Examination                                                                                      3  Hours
University Examination                                                                                              75 Marks
Sessional                                                                                                                     25 Marks

UNIT – I

Measuring Performance and Cost: Performance Measurement, Enhancement to Uniprocessor Models, Benchmarks, Basic Model of Advanced Computer Architectures.

UNIT – II

Pipelining and Superscalar Techniques: Basic Pipelining, Data and Control Hazards, Dynamic Instruction Scheduling, Branch Prediction Techniques, Performance Evaluation, Case Study-Sun Microsystems – Microprocessor.

UNIT – III

Vector Processors: Vector Processor Models, Vector Architecture and Design, Performance Evaluation, Programming Vector Processors.

UNIT – IV

Array Processors: Parallel Array Processor Model, Memory Organization, Interconnection, Networks: Performance Measures, Static and Dynamic Topologies.

UNIT - V

Multiprocessors and Multi Computers: Multiprocessor Models, Shared – Memory and Distributed Memory Architectures, Memory Organization, Cache Coherence and Synchronization Mechanisms, Parallel Computer, Performance Models.

Suggested Reading:

1. 1)John. L. Hennessey and David A Patterson, “ Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach”, 4^th Edition, Elsevier, 2007.
2. 2)Sajjan G. Shiva, Taylor Series, “ Advanced Computer Architecture”, CRC Press, 2006.
3. 3)Kai Hwang, “Advanced Computer Architecture ”, McGraw Hill,