Processor architecture

The aim of this course is to provide students with the necessary knowledge of modern processor architectures and microarchitectures. The RISC-V instruction set is used to illustrate the various mechanisms.
Various concepts are covered:

Instruction set architectures,
Pipelining and dependency problems,
Superscalar microarchitectures,
Caches and memory hierarchy,
Speculation mechanisms.

Skills developed through this module :

• Analyze and use programmable architecture for embedded systems - level 2
• Designing and implementing a program written in C/C++ for embedded systems - level 2
• Designing and implementing a programmable architecture for embedded systems - level 2
• Designing and implementing a digital architecture for embedded systems - Level 2

EN110: Digital electronics
MI100: Microcontroller architecture
IF126: C language for electronics

Instruction set architectures.
The pipeline and dependency problems.
Superscalar microarchitectures.
Caches and memory hierarchy.
Speculation mechanisms.

Processor architectures, embedded systems

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