Computer Architecture (idea)

There are many nodes about or pertaining to computer architecture on E2, but no single coherent collection. This is a feeble attempt. Please /msg me for anything I have missed, corrections, criticism, and suggestions.

About Computer Architecture

• Computer Architecture
• comp.arch
• Amdahl's law

Parts of processors/processor terms

• translation look-aside buffer
• Arithmetic Logic Unit
• program counter
• register
• opcode
• ISA
• microcode
• machine language
• microprocessor
• instruction set
• CPU
• microcontroller
• branch prediction
• Branch Target Buffer
• Trace Cache
• Conditional Execution

Schools of thought

• CISC vs RISC
• Harvard Architecture
• Von Neumann architecture

Microarchitecture classifications

• VLIW
• RISC
• CISC
• superscalar
• superpipelined
• pipelining
• control flow
• SISD
• SIMD
• MIMD
• dataflow
• Transport-triggered architecture
• Operation-triggered architecture

Cache

• cache miss
• write-through cache
• Fully-associative cache
• cache
• write-back cache
• Direct-Mapped Cache
• Set-associative cache
• Direct Mapped Cache
• L2 cache
• L1 cache

Memory

• RAM
• ROM
• SRAM
• ROM
• NVRAM
• Random Access Memory
• SDRAM
• DDR SDRAM
• RDRAM
• dram

Memory Management

• page fault
• physical address
• mmu
• virtual memory

Parallelism

• SMP
• out of order execution
• parallel processors
• ccNUMA
• NUMA
• symmetric multiprocessing
• multiprocessor
• parallel processing
• PVM
• parallel computing
• parallel processing
• ILP

Implementations

• System/360
• i860
• VAX
• MIPS
• hep
• Cray T3E-1200E
• ARM
  • ARM1
  • ARM2
  • ARM3
  • ARM6
  • ARM7
  • ARM8
  • ARM9
  • StrongARM
  • XScale
  • EP7312
• MOVE processor
• x86
  • p6 core
  • pentium 4

Misc/Unclassified

• OISC
• locality of reference