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Engr 851 - Midterm Topics

  • Book:
    • Chapters 1, 3.
    • Appendices A and C.
  • Pipelining
  • Superscalar
  • VLIW / EPIC
  • Multithreading
  • Multi-core Architectures
  • Multi-processor systems
  • Branch Prediction
  • Register Renaming
  • Linear Programming
    min Cx
    where Ax <= B
    • C is a vector of constants.
    • x is the vector of variables.
    • A is a 2 dimensional matrix of constants.
    • B is a vector of constants.
  • Integer Linear Programming
    • Graph coloring
    • Register renaming
    • Scheduling
    • Other optimization problems?