Evaluation methodology/metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level parallelism, prediction-based techniques, alternative architectures (VLIW, Vector and SIMD), ...

An instruction set architecture (ISA) defines the set of basic operations a computer must support. This includes the functional definition of operations and precise descriptions of how to invoke and ...

Instruction Set Architecture Understanding adders, multipliers and dividers Datapath, Control, Pipelining DETAILED COURSE TOPICS: Week 1: Form teams. Understand project. Learn instruction set for ...

Instead of maintaining 1 pipeline, the architecture effectively maintains parallel pipelines, loading them and then switching between them to maximize loop performance.