INTEL

00 Microprocessors – PDF, 822.8 KB

01 Microprocessors – PDF, 437.7 KB

02 Microprocessors – PDF, 427.2 KB

03 Microprocessors – PDF, 611.1 KB

04 Microprocessors – PDF, 483.4 KB

05 Microprocessors – PDF, 638.1 KB

06 Microprocessors – PDF, 364.1 KB

07 Microprocessors – PDF, 613.4 KB

08 Microprocessors – PDF, 683.5 KB

Designing Tomorrow's Microprocessors Seminari parcialment en anglès. Mòduls 4, 6, 7 i 9

Responsable del curs

Antonio González

Professors

Josep M Codina, Ayose Falcón, Antonio González, Meyrem Kirman, Nevin Kirman, Pedro Marcuello, Raúl Martínez, Matteo Monchiero, Daniel Ortega, Kyriakos Stavrou, Xavier Vera, Polychronis Xekalakis

Programa

1. Overview of today's microprocessors and future trends

Overview of microprocessors
Types of microprocessors: classification from different perspectives
Past evolution and future trends
Main challenges and opportunities in the next decade

2. Design cycle for microprocessors

Overview of the microprocessor design flow
Description of the main steps of the microprocessor design flow
Overview of silicon process technology
Intel's tick-tock approach

3. Methodology for research in microprocessors

The role of research
The scientific method
Background study and proposal of new ideas
Preparing and validating experiments
Interpreting the results
Disseminating the results

4. Multi-core processor architectures (Mòdul en anglès)

Motivation
Parallel architectures
Cache architectures
Networks on chip
Multi-Threading schemes

5. Parallel programming

Motivation
Parallel programming languages
Automatic parallelization
Parallel programming for games

6. Systems-on-Chip (Mòdul en anglès)

Introduction of SoC
Challenges of SoC
Moorestown platform: Intel’s next SoC system for smart phones
Future SoC: integrated programmable accelerator

7. Techniques for power reduction (Mòdul en anglès)

Why should we design for low power?
Where does the power go?
Techniques to save dynamic power
Techniques to save static power
Future implications

8. Reliability

Introduction to new reliability challenges
Robust design challenges
Process variations
Degradation
Defects
Infant mortality
Soft errors
Testing challenges
An overview of some circuit, microarchitecture and high-level solutions

9. Hardware/software co-design microprocessors (Mòdul en anglès)

Overview of the technology
Key ideas and advantages
Market examples / practical applications
Potential and open issues

Horari

31 gener de 8:00 - 11:00
1 febrer de 8:00 - 11:00
2 febrer de 8:00 - 11:00

Seminaris Empresa 2011 - Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona - apre

fib.upc.edu