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| Arvind Kumar | Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology ME CSE SCSA7012 Multicore Architecture Syllabus Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology ME CSE SCSA7012 Multicore Architecture Syllabus SATHYABAMA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF COMPUTING SCSA7012 MULTICORE ARCHITECTURE L T P Credits Total Marks 3 0 0 3 100 UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION 9 Hrs. Fundamentals of Super Scalar Processor Design - Introduction to Multicore Architecture - Chip Multiprocessing - Homogeneous Vs. Heterogeneous Design – SMP - Multicore vs. Multithreading. UNIT 2 MEMORY ORGANIZATION 9 Hrs. Shared memory architectures – Synchronization – Memory organization – Cache Memory – Cache Coherency Protocols - Design of Levels of Caches. UNIT 3 PROGRAMMING MODEL 9 Hrs. Multicore programming Model – Shared memory model - Message passing model -Transaction model – OpenMP and MPI Programming. UNIT 4 POWER PC DESIGN 9 Hrs. PowerPC architecture – RISC design - Power PC ISA - Power PC Memory Management - Power 5 Multicore architecture design - Power 6 Architecture. UNIT 5 PROCESSING ELEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT 9 Hrs. Cell Broadband engine architecture - PPE (Power Processor Element) - SPE (Synergistic processing element) - Cell Software Development Kit - Programming for Multicore architecture. Max. 45 Hrs. TEXT / REFERENCE BOOKS 1. Hennessey & Pateterson, “Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach”, Harcourt Asia, Morgan Kaufmann, 1999 2. Joseph JaJa,”Introduction to Parallel Algorithms”, Addison-Wesley, 1992. 3. IBM Journals for Power 5, Power 6 and Cell Broadband Engine Architecture. 4. Kai Hwang, “Advanced Computer Architecture: Parallelism, Scalability and Programmability” McGraw Hill, 1993. 5. Richard Y. Kain, “Advanced Computer Architecture: A System Design Approach”, PHI, 1999. 6. Rohit Chandra, Ramesh Menon, Leo Dagum, and David Kohr, “Parallel Programming in OpenMP”, Morgan Kaufmann, 2000. END SEMESTER EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER PATTERN Max. Marks: 100 Exam Duration: 3 Hrs. PART A: 5 Questions of 6 Marks each – No choice 30 Marks PART B: 2 Questions from each unit of internal choice, each carrying 14 Marks 70 Marks |
