B.E/B.TECH ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

1	Fundamentals of computer design
2	Measuring and reporting performance
3	Quantitative principles of computer design
4	ISA
6	Pipelining
5	Deign issues ISA
7	Pipeline hazard
8	Implementation
9	Multicycle operation
10	Instruction Level Parallelism
11	Dynamic scheduling
12	Dynamic hardware prediction
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14	Multiple Issue
15	Hardware based speculation
16	Limitations of ILP
17	case study
18	Compiler techniques for exposing ILP
20	Static branch prediction
21	Hardware support for exposing more parallelism
22	Hardware vs software speculation mechanism
23	Case study
24	Symmetric shared memory architecture
25	distributed shared memory and directory based coherence
26	Performance issues
27	Synchronisation issues
28	Models of memory consistency
29	Software and hardware multithreading
30	SMT architecture
31	CMP architecture
32	Case study
33	Cache performance
34	Reducing cache miss penalty
35	Reducing hit time
36	Main memeory and performance
37	Memory Technology
38	Types of storage devices
39	Buses and RAID
40	Reliability, availability and dependability
41	I/O performance