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Buzzwords are terms that are mentioned during lecture which are particularly important to understand thoroughly. This page tracks the buzzwords for each of the lectures and can be used as a reference for finding gaps in your understanding of course material.
* IA-64
* IA-64 instruction bundle * Multiple instructions in the bundle along with the template bit * Template bits * Stop bits * Non-faulting loads and exception propagation * Aggressive ST-LD reordering * Phyiscal memory system * Ideal pipelines
* DRAM cell
* SRAM cell (Cross coupled inverter)
* Memory bank
* Scaling issue
* Memory hierarchy
* Spatial and temporal locality
* Caching in a pipeline design * Cache management
* Latency analysis
* Cache basics
* Cache access
* Cost and benefit of having more associativity
* How to implement LRU