CS 573: Midterm Topics

• Instruction Set Archictectures
  • RISC vs. CISC
    • Characteristics of RISC, characteristics of CISC
    • Relationship between RISC and pipelines
    • Complicated instructions, addressing modes
  • Important features of example architectures
• Advanced CPU Implementation
  • Pipelines
  • Branch Prediction
  • Out of Order Execution
  • Register Renaming
• Cache and VM
  • Cache: associativity, lookups, etc.
  • VM: Forward page tables, hashed page tables
  • Hashing techniques in the memory system
  • Note: no VAX VM