Digital Design and Computer Architecture

• Profs: O. Mutlu, S. Sadrosadati
• Website: https://safari.ethz.ch/ddca/spring2025/doku.php?id=start
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I suggest reading the General Summary (WIP) as it is much more content dense and to the point over the individual lecture notes.

Lecture Notes

• 01 Introduction and Basics
• 02 Tradeoffs, Metrics & Combinational Logic 1
• 03 Combinational Logic 2
• 04 Sequential Logic Design
• 04.5 Labs Intro and FPGAs
• 05 Sequential Logic Design II & Hardware Description Languages and Verilog
• 06 Hardware Description Languages and Verilog II, Timing
• 06.5 Verification & Testing
• 07 Von Neumann Model & Instruction Set Architectures
• 08 Instruction Set Architectures II
• 09 ISA & Microarchitecture
• 09.5 Assembly Programming
• 10 Microarchitecture Fundamentals and Design
• 11 Multi-Cycle Microarchitecture Design
• 12 Pipelining, Data Dependencies
• 13 Pipelined Processor Design - Data & Control Dependence Handling
• 14 Precise Exceptions & Register Renaming
• 15 Out-of-Order Execution
• 15.5 Load-Store Handling in Out-of-Order Execution
• 16 Superscalar Execution & Branch Prediction
• 17 Advanced Branch Prediction
• 18 VLIW and Systolic Array Architectures
• 18.5 Decoupled Access-Execute
• 19 SIMD Architectures (Vector and Array Processors)
• 20 GPU Architectures
• 21 Memory Systems, DRAM
• 22 Memory Hierarchy, Caching, Direct-Mapped, Set-Associative, Fully Associative Caches
• 23 Cache Design and Management
• 24 Multicore Caching and Cache Coherence, Prefetching
• 25 Prefetching, RL based PF, Execution-Based PF, Virtual Memory
• 26 Virtual Memory, Multi-Table-VM, Translation-Lookaside-Buffer, Memory Protection

Study Notes

• Microarchitecture Concepts (Pipelining, OoO, Superscaler, VLIW, Systolic, SIMD etc, and GPUs) Summary
• General Summary