Review Topics for Midterm 1

Chapter 1

• The importance of technological trends (1.3)
• The importance of chip area (1.4)
• SPEC benchmark suites (1.5)
• Principles of computer design (1.6)

Chapter 2

• Classifications of instruction set architectures (2.2)
• Memory adressing modes (2.3)
• Types of operations and their uses (2.7-2.9)
• Encoding an instruction set and its impact (2.10)

Chapter 3

• Tomasulo's Algorithm, reordering, and renaming (3.2, 3.3, 3.7)
• Techniques for dealing with control dependences (3.4, 3.5)
• Multiple issue and its complexities (3.6)

Chapter 4

• Loop unrolling and loop-carried dependences (4.1, 4.4)
• Static renaming (4.1)
• XXX - dropped - Static branch prediction (4.2)
• Staticly planned multiple issue - VLIW and EPIC (4.3)
• XXX - dropped - Software pipelining (4.4)
• XXX - dropped - Trace scheduling (4.4)