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B.Tech. IT 8th Sem Subject: Advanced Computer Architecture
UNIT - 1 Flynn’s Classification, Linear pipeline processor, Nonlinear pipeline processor, Instruction pipeline design, Mechanisms, Dynamic instruction scheduling, Arithmetic pipeline design, Super-scalar processors, VLIW architecture.
UNIT - 2 Memory Hierarchy & I/O organization, Cache memories, Cache coherence, High bandwidth memories, High bandwidth I/O, Disk I/O, Bus specifications and standards.
UNIT - 3 Parallel Computer Models & Program parallelism Classification of Machines, SISD, SIMD, MIMD, Condition of parallelism, data and resource dependencies, Program partitioning & scheduling, Grain size latency, Control flow versus data control, Data flow architecture.
UNIT - 4 Synchronous Parallel Processing, Vector instruction types, vector access memory schemes, Vector and symbolic processors, SIMD architecture, SIMD parallel algorithms, SIMD computers and performance enhancements.
UNIT - 5 System Interconnection, Network properties and routing, static interconnection networks, Dynamic interconnection networks, Multiprocessor system interconnection, Multistage & combining networks.
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