Microprocessors and Embedded Systems
Lecture 4 Introduction to Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) Dr. Konstantinos Tatas.
Instruction-Level Parallel Processors {Objective: executing two or more instructions in parallel} 4.1 Evolution and overview of ILP-processors 4.2 Dependencies.
C HAPTER 8 Computer Organization and Architecture © 2014 Cengage Learning Engineering. All Rights Reserved. 1 Computer Organization and Architecture: Themes.
ECSE 436 1 DSP architecture Review of basic computer architecture concepts C6000 architecture: VLIW Principle and Scheduling Addressing Assembly and linear.
1 Current and Future Trends in Processor Architecture Theo Ungerer Borut Robic Jurij Silc.
3.13. Fallacies and Pitfalls Fallacy: Processors with lower CPIs will always be faster Fallacy: Processors with faster clock rates will always be faster.
Understanding the Sources of Inefficiency in General-Purpose Chips.
1 Chapter 3: ILP and Its Dynamic Exploitation Review simple static pipeline Dynamic scheduling, out-of-order execution Dynamic branch prediction, Instruction.
– 1 – ISAs and Microarchitectures Instruction Set Architecture The interface between hardware and software “Language” + programmer visible state + I/O.
EECC551 - Shaaban #1 lec # 6 Fall 2004 10-5-2004 Evolution of Processor Performance Source: John P. Chen, Intel Labs CPI > 10 1.1-10 0.5 - 1.1.35 -.5 (?)
An Efficient Algorithm for Scheduling Instructions with Deadline Constraints on ILP Machines Wu Hui Joxan Jaffar School of Computing National University.