The document contains two assignments and an HPCA syllabus for a midterm exam. Assignment 1 contains questions about MIPS pipeline data path units and branch address evaluation, calculating clock cycles for an expression with and without operand forwarding, and questions about CPU execution time, speedup factors, average CPI, and execution time. Assignment 2 contains questions about dynamic scheduling stages and Amdahl's law applied to a data science pipeline. The HPCA syllabus covers topics like performance measurement, Amdahl's law, pipelining concepts in MIPS, hazards and their effects, and techniques to reduce hazards.
The document contains two assignments and an HPCA syllabus for a midterm exam. Assignment 1 contains questions about MIPS pipeline data path units and branch address evaluation, calculating clock cycles for an expression with and without operand forwarding, and questions about CPU execution time, speedup factors, average CPI, and execution time. Assignment 2 contains questions about dynamic scheduling stages and Amdahl's law applied to a data science pipeline. The HPCA syllabus covers topics like performance measurement, Amdahl's law, pipelining concepts in MIPS, hazards and their effects, and techniques to reduce hazards.
The document contains two assignments and an HPCA syllabus for a midterm exam. Assignment 1 contains questions about MIPS pipeline data path units and branch address evaluation, calculating clock cycles for an expression with and without operand forwarding, and questions about CPU execution time, speedup factors, average CPI, and execution time. Assignment 2 contains questions about dynamic scheduling stages and Amdahl's law applied to a data science pipeline. The HPCA syllabus covers topics like performance measurement, Amdahl's law, pipelining concepts in MIPS, hazards and their effects, and techniques to reduce hazards.
The document contains two assignments and an HPCA syllabus for a midterm exam. Assignment 1 contains questions about MIPS pipeline data path units and branch address evaluation, calculating clock cycles for an expression with and without operand forwarding, and questions about CPU execution time, speedup factors, average CPI, and execution time. Assignment 2 contains questions about dynamic scheduling stages and Amdahl's law applied to a data science pipeline. The HPCA syllabus covers topics like performance measurement, Amdahl's law, pipelining concepts in MIPS, hazards and their effects, and techniques to reduce hazards.
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Assignment: 1
1. What are the use of various components of MIPS data path unit example. In latest MIPS pipeline data path unit , how branch address is evaluated in the decoding unit, Explain the above with neat diagram. 2. Find out the minimum no of clock cycle required towards the completion of following expression without and with using Operand forwarding technique in 5 stage pipelines.
A, B, C, D,E represents the memory variables.
A =B+CD=A +E
3(a). How to find the CPU Execution time of a machine? What is the use of SpeedUp factor in the performance evaluation of a computer.
1. What is Dynamic Scheduling and what are the 4 stages used in scoreboard toperform Dynamic Scheduling.
2. Suppose you have a data science pipeline with 3 operators that take 5s, 10s, and 15s to execute, respectively. According to Amdahl's law, what is the maximum speedup you can achieve by optimizing the 2nd operator?
3. Perform the Dynamic Scheduling of the following codes with Scoreboard
technique L.D F2, 5(R3) MUL.D F0, F2, F3ADD.D F5, F3, F4DIV.D F10, F6, F3 With these given information:
HPCA Syllabus For Midsem Exam ::
Overview of Computer Architecture ::
1.Introduction To High performance Computer Architecture 2.Review of basic computer architectures 3.Introduction to instruction Set architecture (ISA) I.CISC & RISC processor with examples 4 Measuring and Reporting Performance I.Processor performance equation (with numerical) II.Performance Measurement with respect to execution time, CPU time(concept with numerical) III.Performance Measurement with respect to the basic performance equation (concept with numerical) IV.Amdahl’s law (concept with Exercises on speedup and overall speedup calculation) Pipelining :: 1 Basic concepts to parallel processing & pipelining Concept. 2 Introduction to MIPS Architecture with its data path I.Registers in MIPS II.MIPS Instruction Format(R type,I Type and J type) III.MIPS Instruction set with examples IV.MIPS Data-path and Control 3 A brief introduction to Hazard and Types of Hazards (Concepts and exercises) I.Structural Hazard II.Data Hazard (Inter-instruction dependency with suitable examples:) III.Control Hazard 4 Pipeline Stall Cycles and its possible effects on performance (Concepts and exercises) I. A technique for overcoming or reducing the effects of Various hazards (Solutions to different Hazards) (concepts and numericals) II. Operand forwarding and Instruction scheduling III.Flush pipeline, Branch Prediction, Delay Slot
