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Overview
I took this course in the Spring of 2009 with Professor David Albonesi
Course Websites
Description (from the CSL site)
Principles and current practices of memory system design. Topics include cache hierarchy optimization, high performance memory controllers and technologies, approaches to power and reliability issues, exploiting memory level parallelism, memory systems for parallel computer architectures, and case studies.
Course Notes
| Tuesday,
| 01/20/2009
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| 01 - Introduction
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| Thursday,
| 01/22/2009
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| 02 - Cache Overview
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| Tuesday,
| 01/27/2009
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| 03 - Trace Caches and Non-Blocking Caches
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| Thursday,
| 01/29/2009
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| 04 - Non-Blocking Caches and Cache Content Management
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| Tuesday,
| 02/03/2009
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| 05 - Cache Content Management
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| Thursday,
| 02/05/2009
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| 06 - Cache Content Management
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| Thursday,
| 02/12/2009
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| 07 - Offline Cache Content Management
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| Tuesday,
| 02/17/2009
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| 08 - Cache Power Management
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| Thursday,
| 02/19/2009
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| 09 - Cache Power Management
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| Tuesday,
| 02/24/2009
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| 10 - Cache Case Studies
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| Thursday,
| 02/26/2009
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| 11 - Overview of DRAMs
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| Tuesday,
| 03/03/2009
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| 12 - More on DRAMs
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| Thursday,
| 03/05/2009
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| 13 - DRAM Access Protocol
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| Tuesday,
| 03/10/2009
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| 14 - Memory Controllers
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| Thursday,
| 03/12/2009
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| 15 - Memory Controllers & Project Kickoff
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| Tuesday,
| 03/24/2009
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| 16 - Memory Scheduling
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| Tuesday,
| 03/31/2009
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| 17 - Memory Scheduling for CMPs
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| Thursday,
| 04/02/2009
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| 18 - Refresh and Memory Power Management
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| Tuesday,
| 04/07/2009
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| 19 - Memory Controller Case Studies
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| Thursday,
| 04/16/2009
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| 20 - Hard Disk Drives
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| Tuesday,
| 04/21/2009
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| 21 - Hard Disk Drives, Defect Management, and Drive Interfaces
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| Wednesday,
| 04/22/2009
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| 22 - Disk Drive Performance Issues and Design Tradeoffs
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| Thursday,
| 04/23/2009
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| 23 - Command Scheduling and Disk Caching
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| Tuesday,
| 04/28/2009
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| 24 - RAID
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| Thursday,
| 04/30/2009
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| 25 - Disk Case Studies and Power Management
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