Multi Masters SystemsExplores Multi Masters Systems, discussing architectures with multiple processors, shared memory, mutual exclusion, and hardware accelerators.
Memory Cache PrinciplesExplores memory cache principles, emphasizing spatial locality, latency impact, and cache efficiency strategies.
Multi-Cycle MIPS ProcessorExplores the design and performance analysis of a Multi-Cycle MIPS Processor compared to a Single-Cycle Processor, emphasizing benefits and downsides.
Fast Interconnects: Scalable Co-processing with GPUsExplores the use of fast interconnects for scalable co-processing with GPUs in databases, emphasizing the importance of overcoming the transfer bottleneck and reevaluating assumptions for performance improvements.
Caches - PerformanceExplores cache memory performance evaluation, covering benchmarks, Amdahl's law, CPU performance, memory hierarchy, cache optimizations, and multilevel caches.
Introduction to ProcessorsCovers the fundamentals of processors, from digital logic to program execution, including components like ALU, register file, and control logic.