Anna University
Department of Computer Science Engineering
Sixth Semester
CS2354 Advanced Computer Architecture
Important Topics
(Regulation 2008)
UNIT-1
1.) ILP
2.) Dynamic Scheduling
3.) Hardware and Software approaches
4.) Branch prediction
UNIT-2
1.) VLIW & EPIC
2.) Advanced compiler support
3.) Hardware support for Exposing parallelism
UNIT-3
1.) Multithreading
2.) Models of Memory consistency
3.) Synchronization
UNIT-4
1.) Types of Storage device
2.) I/O Performance measures
3.) RAID
4.) Reliability availability and dependability
UNIT-5
1.) SMT and CMP architecture
2.) Software and Hardware Multithreading
3.) Heterogenous multi-core processors