CSE548: Computer Systems Architecture

Instructor: Mark Oskin

TA: Reshabh Sharma, reshabh at cs.washington.edu

Course overview: here

Please submit all daily reading assignemnts here

Readings

• Oct 3rd
  Required: The case for the reduced instruction set computer
  Required: Comments on "the case for the reduced instruction set computer," by Patterson and Ditzel
• Oct 5th
  Required: An Efficient Algorithm for Exploiting Multiple Functional Units
  Required: HPSm, A High Performance Restricted Data Flow Architecture Having Minimal Functionality
  Optional: Wikipedia has a nice simplified explanation that you may like to read
• Oct 10th
  Required: A Study of Branch Prediction Strategies
  Required: Retrospective
  Skim/Requird: A New Case for the TAGE Branch Predictor
  Optional: Neural Methods for Dynamic Branch Prediction