Software/Hardware Co-Design
for Efficient Computing

Course Overview

• This course is a study of the evolution of computer architecture and the factors influencing the design of hardware and software elements of computer systems

• Topics may include:

  • Instruction set design

  • Processor micro-architecture and pipelining

  • Cache and virtual memory organizations

  • In-order and out-of-order superscalar architectures

  • VLIW machines

  • Vector supercomputers and GPU basic

  • Multithreaded architectures

  • Symmetric multiprocessors

  • Memory models and synchronization

  • Modern domain-specific accelerators, languages, and compilers

  • FPGA basic