CS252: Reading Assignment #8 Due Wednesday, February 22nd

1. The Predictability of Data Values, Yiannakis Sazeides and James E. Smith. Proceedings of International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-30), 1997
   Supplemental Readings:
• Selective Value Prediction, Brad Calder, Glenn Reinman, and Dean Tullsen. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA-26), 1999
2. The Alpha 21264 Microprocessor, R.E. Kessler. IEEE Micro, pp 24-36, Vol 19, No. 2 (March 1999)
   Supplemental Readings:
   • The Alpha 21264: a 500 MHz out-of-order execution microprocessor, D. Leibholz and R.  Razdan, Appears in Proceedings of CompCon '97
   • Circuit Implementation of a 600MHz Superscalar RISC Microprocessor, M. Matson, D. Bailey, S. Bell, L. Biro, S. Butler, J. Clouser, J. Farrell, M. Gowan, D. Priore, and K. Wilcox, Appears in Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD '98).
3. Complexity-effective superscalar processors, Subbarao Palacharla, Norman P. Jouppi and J. E. Smith. Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Computer  Architecture (ISCA). Denver, 1997 
   Supplemental Reading:
   • Quantifying the Complexity of Superscalar Processors, Subbarao Palacharla, Norman P. Jouppi and J. E. Smith,Technical Report CS-TR-96-1328, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 19 November 1996.

You must also:

Turn in three paragraphs for Wednesday. For the first paragraph, summarize paper #1. For the second paragraph, summarize the architecture of the 21264 and detail (1) the different prediction mechanisms used by the 21264 and (2) detail how register renaming interacts with instruction scheduling. For the third paragraph, summarize the order of growth of delay and/or complexity for various components of a modern superscalar processor.

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