332 Advanced Computer Architecture - lecture notes

Lecture notes for the Parallel Architectures course can be found on-line here, in two forms:

• HTML, i.e. in a convenient form for on-line browsing
• PDF/Postscript, ie ready for you to print (the quality is somewhat better than if you just print the web pages, and the slides are arranged four-per-page to save paper).

Access to some of the materials of protected by a simple password mechanism; the username is the initials of the course title, the password on the lecturer's last name, all in lower case. Permission to access this material is granted to all Imperial students.

For on-line browsing (HTML):

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4 Supplemental material on Tomasulo with ROB (Old version of Chapter 4)
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• (Old chapter 6 - branch prediction) (You might also have a look at Huiyang Zhou's notes from CDA 5106 Advanced Computer Architecture at UCF (originally from Eric Rotenberg?))
• Chapter 7 (old version Chapter 7 - cache coherency