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buzzword [2014/01/15 19:27]
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buzzword [2014/01/17 19:19]
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   * What are not a part of the ISA? (what goes inside: uArch techniques)   * What are not a part of the ISA? (what goes inside: uArch techniques)
     * Things that are not suppose to be visible to the programmer/​software but typically make the processor faster and/or consumes less power and/or less complex     * Things that are not suppose to be visible to the programmer/​software but typically make the processor faster and/or consumes less power and/or less complex
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 +===== Lecture 3 (1/17 Fri.) =====
 +
 +  * Design tradeoffs
 +  * Macro Architectures
 +  * Reconfiguribility vs. specialized designs
 +  * Parallelism (instructions,​ data parallel)
 +  * Uniform decode (Example: Alpha)
 +  * Steering bits (Sub-opcode)
 +  * 0,1,2,3 address machines
 +    * Stack machine
 +    * Accumulator machine
 +    * 2-operand machine
 +    * 3-operand machine
 +    * Tradeoffs between 0,1,2,3 address machines
 +  * Instructions/​Opcode/​Operade specifiers (i.e. addressing modes)
 +  * Simply vs. complex data type (and their tradeoffs)
 +  * Semantic gap
 +  * Translation layer
 +  * Addressability
 +  * Byte/bit addressable machines
 +  * Virtual memory
 +  * Big/little endian
 +  * Benefits of having registers (data locality)
 +  * Programmer visible (Architectural) state
 +    * Programmers can access this directly
 +    * What are the benefits?
 +  * Microarchitectural state
 +    * Programmers cannot access this directly
 +  * Evolution of registers (from accumulators to registers)
 +  * Different types of instructions
 +    * Control instructions
 +    * Data instructions
 +    * Operation instructions
 +  * Addressing modes
 +    * Tradeoffs (complexity,​ flexibility,​ etc.)
 +  * Orthogonal ISA
 +    * Addressing modes that are orthogonal to instructino types
 +  * Vectors vs. non vectored interrupts
 +  * Complex vs. simple instructions
 +    * Tradeoffs
 +  * RISC vs. CISC
 +    * Tradeoff
 +    * Backward compatibility
 +    * Performance
 +    * Optimization opportunity
 +
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