Course

CS-470: Advanced computer architecture

Summary

This course explores techniques for exploiting instruction-level parallelism both statically and dynamically. It also addresses the generation of hardware accelerators from programming languages and investigates security issues related to microarchitectural features, including side-channel attacks.

Lectures

Instructor

Paolo Ienne

Paolo Ienne has been a Professor at the EPFL since 2000 and heads the Processor Architecture Laboratory (LAP). Prior to that, he worked for the Semiconductors Group of Siemens AG, Munich, Germany (which later became Infineon Technologies AG) where he was at the head of the Embedded Memories unit in the Design Libraries division. His research interests include various aspects of computer and processor architecture, FPGAs and reconfigurable computing, electronic design automation, and computer arithmetic. Ienne was a recipient of Best Paper Awards at the 20th, 24th, and 28th ACM/SIGDA International Symposia on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), in 2012, 2016 and 2020, at the 19th and 30th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), in 2009 and 2020, at the International Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), in 2007, and at the 40th Design Automation Conference (DAC), in 2003; many other papers have been candidates to Best Paper Awards in prestigious venues. He has served as general, programme, and topic chair of renown international conferences, including organizing in Lausanne the 26th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) in 2016. He serves on the steering committee of the IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (ARITH) and of the International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL). Ienne has guest edited a number of special issues and special sections on various topics for IEEE and ACM journals. He is regularly member of program committees of international workshops and conferences in the areas of design automation, computer architecture, embedded systems, compilers, FPGAs, and asynchronous design. He has been an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), since 2015, of ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), since 2014, and of ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) from 2011 to 2016.

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Summary

Lectures

Instructor

Paolo Ienne

Official source

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/CS-470

Lectures in this course (14)

Pipelining: Enhancing Computer Architecture Performance

Covers pipelining in computer architecture, focusing on its role in enhancing performance through instruction-level parallelism and addressing associated challenges.

Dynamic Scheduling in Processors: Enhancing Instruction Execution

Covers dynamic scheduling in processors, focusing on out-of-order execution and managing instruction dependencies effectively.

Covers register renaming techniques essential for eliminating execution hazards in modern processors.

Prediction and Speculation in Processor Design

Covers prediction and speculation techniques in processor design to enhance performance and reduce execution delays.

Understanding Simultaneous Multithreading in Modern Processors

Covers simultaneous multithreading, its implementation, and its impact on processor performance.

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