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COURSE OVERVIEW (Subject to change)

• Benchmarks, performance metrics

• Pipelining, static scheduling

• Branch prediction

• Dynamic instruction scheduling

• Scoreboarding vs Tomasulo

• Speculative execution

• Multiple issue: superscalar, VLIW

• Compiler issues: dependence analysis

• Parallel programming

• Caches and memory systems

• Shared-memory multiprocessors

• Interconnection networks

+ (if time) case studies, theoretical foundations, new directions