Goal:
The lecture aims at the familiarization of students with key notions, cause-and-effect relationships and unfolding trends concerning processors. Case examples help to understand the curriculum.
Course description:
Overview of the evolution of Intel’s Core 2-based client-, HEDT-, server- and mobile processors. Cornerstones of AMD’s Zen family, evolution of Zen-based processor lines. Key features of the evolution of ARM’s ISA, and Armv8/v9-based CPU-s. Basics of power management. Power management techniques at the circuit-, processor- and platform level. Turbo boost techniques. Evolution of the microarchitecture of mobile processors, symmetric, big, little and dynamIQ multicores. Evolution of 2-socket server processors, key issues of the implementation of server processors. Arm ISA-based client- and server processors.