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Language of Instruction
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English
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Level of Course Unit
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Master's Degree
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Department / Program
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ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
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Type of Program
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Formal Education
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Type of Course Unit
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Elective
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Course Delivery Method
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Face To Face
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Objectives of the Course
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Learn the methodology of calculating the performance of a computer
Learn the required components in a pipelined architecture
Learn designs to cope with the hazards in pipelined architectures.
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Course Content
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This course provides the major concepts and design philosophies of computer architecture and explains the principles, tradeoffs, and implementation details of microprocessors. The course introduces the basic mechanisms such as pipeline, branch prediction, multi-threaded execution, which are utilized in the current state of the art microprocessors. Also, laws of performance evaluation of a modern computer will be explained in the course to measure if a computer meets functional, performance, energy consumption, cost, and other specific goals.
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Course Methods and Techniques
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Prerequisites and co-requisities
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None
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Course Coordinator
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None
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Name of Lecturers
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Asist Prof.Dr. GÜLAY YALÇIN
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Assistants
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None
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Work Placement(s)
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No
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Recommended or Required Reading
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Resources
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Overview of Pipeline & Superscalar (LO1, LO2, LO3)
Instruction Flow (LO1, LO2, LO3)
Register Data Flow (LO1, LO2, LO3)
Memory Data Flow (LO1, LO2, LO3)
Parallel Architectures & Parallel Programming (LO1, LO3)
Non-volatile Memories (LO1, LO3)
Reliability&Security & Privacy (LO1)
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