Midterm Exam Review

• Quantitative analysis
• Amdahl's law
• performance equation:  time = IC x CPI / clock rate

• ISA design
• Classification
• Addressing
• CISC vs RISC
• Intel

• Pipelining (Appendix A)
• Basics
• data path
• pipeline registers
• computing speedup
• Hazards
• structural hazards
• data hazards (RAW, WAW, WAR) and forwarding
• control hazards
• branch penalty
• delayed branch
• Exceptions
• Multicycle operations and floating point

• ILP
• Dependencies
• Data dependencies
• Name dependencies
• output dependency
• antidependency
• Dynamic scheduling
• Tomasulo's algorithm