[Coursera] Computer Architecture

About this course: In this course, you will learn to design the computer architecture of complex modern microprocessors. ### Introduction, Instruction Set Architecture, and Microcode This lecture will give you a broad overview of the course, as well as the description of architecture, micro-architecture and instruction set architectures. ### Pipelining Review This lecture covers the basic concept of pipeline and two different types of hazards. ### Cache Review This lecture covers control hazards and the motivation for caches. ### Superscalar 1 This lecture covers cache characteristics and basic superscalar architecture. ### Superscalar 2 & Exceptions This lecture covers the common issues for superscalar architecture. ### Superscalar 3 This lecture covers different kinds of architectures for out-of-order processors. ### Superscalar 4 This lecture covers the common methods used to improve the performance of out-of-order processors including register renaming and memory disambiguation

关于本课程：在本课程中，您将学习设计复杂现代微处理器的计算机架构。### 课程简介、指令集架构与微代码 本讲座将为您提供一个课程的整体概览，并详细阐述架构、微架构及指令集架构。### 流水线技术回顾 本讲座将涵盖流水线的基本概念及两种不同类型的冒险。### 缓存技术回顾 本讲座将探讨控制冒险以及缓存的动机。### 超标量技术（一） 本讲座将介绍缓存特性和基本的超标量架构。### 超标量技术（二）与异常 本讲座将涵盖超标量架构中常见的难题。### 超标量技术（三） 本讲座将介绍不同类型的乱序处理器的架构。### 超标量技术（四） 本讲座将探讨用于提升乱序处理器性能的常见方法，包括寄存器重命名和内存消除歧义。