Computer Hardware Design (CSC384) — Notes, Syllabus & Past Questions

Hardware architecture design using hardware description languages.

Elective Course7 Chapters
Chapter 1Past Questions

Computer Abstractions and Technology

Introduction, Performance, The Power Wall, The Sea Change: The Switch from Uniprocessors to Multiprocessors, Manufacturing and Benchmarking the AMD Opteron X4.

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Chapter 2Past Questions

Instructions: Language of the Computer

Introduction, Operations of the Computer Hardware, Operands of the Computer Hardware, Signed and Unsigned Numbers, Representing Instructions in the Computer, Logical Operations.

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Chapter 3Past Questions

Arithmetic for Computers

Introduction, Addition and Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Floating Point, Parallelism and Computer Arithmetic: Associativity, Real Stuff: Floating Point in the x86.

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Chapter 4Past Questions

The Processor

Introduction, Logic Design Conventions, Building a Data path, A Simple Implementation Scheme, An Overview of Pipelining, Pipelined Data path and Control, Data Hazards: Forwarding versus Stalling.

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Chapter 5Past Questions

Large and Fast: Exploiting Memory Hierarchy

Introduction, The Basics of Caches, Measuring and Improving Cache Performance, Virtual Memory, A Common Framework for Memory Hierarchies, Virtual Machines.

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Chapter 6Past Questions

Storage and Other I/O Topics

Introduction, Dependability, Reliability, and Availability, Disk Storage, Flash Storage, Connecting Processors, Memory, and I/O Devices, Interfacing I/O Devices to the Processor, Memory.

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Chapter 7Past Questions

Multicores, Multiprocessors, and Clusters

Introduction, The Difficulty of Creating Parallel Processing Programs, Shared Memory Multiprocessors, Clusters and Other Message-Passing Multiprocessors, Hardware Multithreading, SISD, MIMD, SIMD.

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