Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

Part 4: Trends Future Hot Topics in Computer Architecture (sea of accelerators, 3D integration, ... This includes processor cores, the memory hierarchy, branch prediction, and more.

Evaluation methodology/metrics and caveats, instruction set design, advanced pipelining, instruction level parallelism, prediction-based techniques, alternative architectures (VLIW, Vector and SIMD), ...