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Computer Architecture

This subject walks you through the most important concepts step by step, starting from the foundations and moving towards practical exam-focused preparation. Use this page as your central place to revise topics, jump into notes, and quickly access practice material when you need it.

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Digital Hardware Design

topic 1 to 2

2 topics

Digital Hardware Design: Transistors and Digital logic

Hardware description languages (Verilog)

U2

Instruction Set Architecture

topic 3 to 6

4 topics

Instruction Set Architecture: Instruction types and mixes

Addressing modes

RISC vs. CISC architectures

Exceptions in instruction sets

U3

Scalar Pipelines

topic 7 to 9

3 topics

Scalar Pipelines: Data dependencies

Static scheduling

Pipeline performance analysis

U4

VLIW Pipelines

topic 10 to 14

5 topics

VLIW Pipelines: Local scheduling

Loop unrolling and Software pipelining

Trace scheduling

Deferred exceptions and Predicated execution

IA64 architecture

U5

Dynamic Pipelines

topic 15 to 18

4 topics

Dynamic Pipelines: Dynamical scheduling

Register renaming

Speculative execution

U6

Thread-Level Parallelism

topic 19 to 23

5 topics

Thread-Level Parallelism: Cache coherency

Sequential consistency

Symmetric multiprocessing

Transactional memory

U7

Data-Level Parallelism

topic 24

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Data-Level Parallelism: GPU programming

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