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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, 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
- 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
- The role of research
- The scientific method
- Background study and proposal of new ideas
- Preparing and validating experiments
- Interpreting the results
- Disseminating the results
- Motivation
- Parallel architectures
- Cache architectures
- Networks on chip
- Multi-Threading schemes
- Motivation
- Parallel programming languages
- Automatic parallelization
- Parallel programming for games
- Introduction of SoC
- Challenges of SoC
- Moorestown platform: Intel’s next SoC system for smart phones
- Future SoC: integrated programmable accelerator
- Why should we design for low power?
- Where does the power go?
- Techniques to save dynamic power
- Techniques to save static power
- Future implications
- 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
- Overview of the technology
- Key ideas and advantages
- Market examples / practical applications
- Potential and open issues
Horari
- 30 gener de 9:00 a 11
- 31 gener de 9:00 a 12
- 1 febrer de 9:00 a 11
- 2 febrer de 9:00 a 11
Seminaris Empresa 2012 -
Facultat d'Informàtica de Barcelona -
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