intel
Handouts
– PDF, 8.8 MB
Designing Tomorrow's Microprocessors Seminari parcialment en anglès. Mòduls 5 i 9
Responsable del curs
Antonio González
Professors
Josep M Codina, Ayose Falcón, Antonio González, Enric Herrero, Marc Lupon, Pedro Marcuello, Raúl Martínez, Kyriakos Stavrou, Tanausu Ramírez, Ferad Zyulkyarov
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. Microarchitecture of Current Microprocessors
Requirements of the different market segments
From high-end cores to handled devices
Characteristics of products in the market
Products to come
3. 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
Validation life cycle
Validation stages
4. 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
5. Profiling and Performance Evaluation
Introduction to profiling
Identifying the critical path in a program execution
Identifying bottlenecks
Architecture dependent profiling
Identifying synchronization bottlenecks in parallel applications
6. Multi-core processor architectures
Motivation
Parallel architectures
Cache coherence and consistency
Interconnecting the cores
Multithreading
7. Parallel programming
Motivation
Parallel programming languages
Automatic parallelization
Parallel programming for games
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
Overview of the technology
Key ideas and advantages
Market examples / practical applications
Potential and open issues
Horari
- 29 gener de 8:00 a 11:00
- 30 gener de 8:00 a 11:00
- 31 gener de 8:00 a 11:00
fib.upc.edu