ECE5730: Memory Systems

Overview

I took this course in the Spring of 2009 with Professor David Albonesi.

Course Websites

http://blackboard.cornell.edu/
http://csl.cornell.edu/teaching.php

Description

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.

— CSL Website

Deliverables

Our final project was to investigate memory systems in some way. We chose to investigate the effects of a memory-aware DVFS scheme using the computer architecture simulator SESC.

Memory-Aware DVFS for CMP Systems. Saugata Ghose and Jonathan Tse.

Abstract | PDF

Course Notes

01 - Introduction
02 - Cache Overview
03 - Trace Caches and Non-Blocking Caches
04 - Non-Blocking Caches and Cache Content Management
05 - Cache Content Management
06 - Cache Content Management
07 - Offline Cache Content Management
08 - Cache Power Management
09 - Cache Power Management
10 - Cache Case Studies
11 - Overview of DRAMs
12 - More on DRAMs
13 - DRAM Access Protocol
14 - Memory Controllers
15 - Memory Controllers & Project Kickoff
16 - Memory Scheduling
17 - Memory Scheduling for CMPs
18 - Refresh and Memory Power Management
19 - Memory Controller Case Studies
20 - Hard Disk Drives
21 - Hard Disk Drives, Defect Management, and Drive Interfaces
22 - Disk Drive Performance Issues and Design Tradeoffs
23 - Command Scheduling and Disk Caching
24 - RAID
25 - Disk Case Studies and Power Management

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