TDT01 is a specialization course focusing on specialized topics within computer architecture. This year's edition will focus on 1) Server CPU Microarchitecture, 2) Sustainability and Performance Analysis, and 3) Hardware generation and compilers...
Course responsible: Magnus Själander, Magnus Jahre, and Rakesh Kumar
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1. Profiling a warehouse-scale computer
2. Weeding out Frontend Front-End Stalls with Uneven Block Size Instruction Cache
3.ACIC: Admission-Controlled Instruction Cache
Sustainability and Performance Analysis
4. FOCAL: A First-Order Carbon Model to Assess Processor Sustainability
5. Per-Instruction Cycle Stacks Through Time-Proportional Event Analysis
6. AIO: An Abstraction for Performance Analysis Across Diverse Accelerator Architectures
Hardware generation and compilers
7. RipTide: A Programmable, Energy-Minimal Dataflow Compiler and Architecture (Recommended for a group with three students)