JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Outcomes

At the end of this course, students will be able to

• 1. Identify limitations of different architectures of computer
• 2. Analysis quantitatively the performance parameters for different architectures
• 3. Investigate issues related to compilers and instruction set based on type of architectures.

UNIT - I

Overview of Parallel Processing and Pipelining, Performance analysis, Scalability, Principles and implementation of Pipelining, Classification of pipelining processors, Advanced pipelining techniques, Software pipelining

UNIT - II

VLIW processors Case study: Superscalar Architecture- Pentium, Intel Itanium Processor, Ultra SPARC, MIPS on FPGA, Vector and Array Processor, FFT Multiprocessor Architecture

UNIT - III

Multithreaded Architecture, Multithreaded processors, Latency hiding techniques, Principles of multithreading, Issues and solutions.

UNIT - IV

Parallel Programming Techniques: Message passing program development, Synchronous and asynchronous message passing, Shared Memory Programming, Data Parallel Programming, Parallel Software Issues

UNIT - V

Operating systems for multiprocessors systems Customizing applications on parallel processing platforms

TEXTBOOKS:

• 1. Kai Hwang, Faye A. Briggs, “Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing”, MGH International Edition
• 2. Kai Hwang, “Advanced Computer Architecture”, TMH

REFERENCES:

• 1. V. Rajaraman, L. Sivaram Murthy, “Parallel Computers”, PHI.
• 2. William Stallings, “Computer Organization and Architecture, Designing for performance” Prentice Hall, Sixth edition
• 3. Kai Hwang, Zhiwei Xu, “Scalable Parallel Computing”, MGH
• 4. David Harris and Sarah Harris, “Digital Design and Computer Architecture”, Morgan Kaufmann.
• 5. System Design with Embedded Circuits (PE-2.2) R19 M. TECH. ES & VLSI DESIGN/VLSI & ES M.TECH.- I YEAR- I SEMESTER EMBEDDED SYSTEMS & VLSI DESIGN/VLSI & EMBEDDED SYSTEMS