Sumários

Not Taught.

29 outubro 2014, 12:30 • José Monteiro

Professor had a TPC meeting abroad.

Improving Cache Performance

28 outubro 2014, 11:00 • José Monteiro

Types of cache misses: compulsory, capacity, conflict. Cache write policies: write-through vs write-back; write allocate vs not-allocate. Block size, analysis of miss rate impact. Blocking vs non-blocking caches: early-restart, critical-word first. Memory organization. Fully and n-way associative caches.

First Lab Assignment: Instruction Level Parallelism

27 outubro 2014, 08:00 • Nuno Santos

First lab assignment: Instruction level parallelism.

Exercises III: Pipelining

24 outubro 2014, 08:00 • Nuno Santos

Exercises III: Pipelining.

Memory System

22 outubro 2014, 12:30 • José Monteiro

Memory hierarchy overview, locality principles. Basic cache operation.