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Prajun Trital

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Advanced Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP)

Compiler-based mechanisms are static approaches to resolving pipeline hazards — meaning these optimizations are performed entirely ahead of…

May 11, 2026 · 8 min read · 8 claps #instr-level-parallelism #prajun-t-notes

Advanced Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP)

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Hidden Barrier to Pipelines

Traps, exceptions, and interrupts are considered “hidden barriers” to pipelining because they fundamentally break the core assumption of…

May 11, 2026 · 5 min read · 7 claps #exceptions-in-pipeline #prajun-t-notes #traps-in-pipeline

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Gaussian Blur

Gaussian Blur is a filtering technique that uses a Gaussian function to create a smoothing effect on an image. The blur reduces image noise…

May 20, 2025 · 3 min read · 3 claps #prajun-t-notes #gaussian-blur #image-processing

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Appendix C: Pipelining: Basic and Intermediate Concepts

These notes follow Computer Architecture — A Quantitative Approach by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, but for a simpler…

Dec 31, 2025 · 27 min read · 1 claps #pipe-lining #mips #prajun-t-notes

Appendix C: Pipelining: Basic and Intermediate Concepts

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Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Quantitative Design and Analysis

These notes follow Computer Architecture — A Quantitative Approach by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson, but for a simpler…

Dec 29, 2025 · 18 min read · 1 claps #computer-architecture #moores-law #amdahls-law

Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Quantitative Design and Analysis

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Pipeline Hazards and Data Dependencies

A hazard is a major barrier in pipelining that, if left unaddressed, will result in the incorrect execution of a program. Hazards…

May 08, 2026 · 12 min read · 1 claps #pipeline-hazard #stall #hazard-control

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Problem: Tower of Hanoi

The Tower of Hanoi is a classic puzzle where we need to move plates from a source peg to a destination peg. The rules are straightforward…

Sep 06, 2025 · 11 min read · 1 claps #tower-of-hanoi #prajun-t-notes

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Advanced ILP Part 1: Dynamic Scheduling and Out-of-Order Execution (Scoreboarding and Tomasulo)

To exploit Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP), computer architects rely on scheduling techniques to resolve hazards and prevent pipeline…

May 07, 2026 · 10 min read · 1 claps #scoreboarding #tomasulo-algorithm #pipeline-diagram

Advanced ILP Part 1: Dynamic Scheduling and Out-of-Order Execution (Scoreboarding and Tomasulo)

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Advanced ILP Part 2: Speculation, Superscalar Pipelines, and VLIW

Speculation is a technique that allows the processor to execute instructions ahead of knowing whether they should actually be executed…

May 07, 2026 · 6 min read · 1 claps #speculation #vliw #superscalar-pipelines

Advanced ILP Part 2: Speculation, Superscalar Pipelines, and VLIW

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Introduction to Benchmarking, Performance Measurement, and Benchmark Types

The term benchmark is heavily overloaded in computer architecture and can be used as both a noun and a verb. The professor defined it in a…

May 06, 2026 · 5 min read · 1 claps #benchmark #computer-architecture #geometric-mean

Introduction to Benchmarking, Performance Measurement, and Benchmark Types

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Parallel Processing

The shift toward parallel processing was driven by physical limitations in processor design. Historically, performance improvements came…

May 14, 2026 · 4 min read · 1 claps #parallel-processing #prajun-t-notes

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Functional Programming Languages

The functional programming paradigm represents a fundamental shift in software design. While imperative languages abstract the manipulation…

Apr 25, 2026 · 3 min read · 1 claps #functional-programming #racket #prajun-t-notes

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Market Segments, Drivers, and Hardware Innovation

Changes in computer usage over the decades have led to diverse computing markets, each characterized by vastly different applications…

Apr 08, 2026 · 11 min read · 0 claps #binning #market-segment #prajun-t-notes

Market Segments, Drivers, and Hardware Innovation

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Cache Optimization

To optimize cache performance, architects classify cache misses into three categories based on their underlying causes (The Three Cs):

May 14, 2026 · 9 min read · 0 claps #cache-optimization #victim-cache #array-interchange

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Varying Latency Pipelines

A varying latency pipeline is a processor design where different types of instructions are allowed to spend a different number of clock…

May 08, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #varying-latency-pipelines #prajun-t-notes #risc-v-pipeline

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Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP) and Basic Pipelining

To understand how modern CPUs execute instructions quickly, we must explore Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP) and the core concept of…

May 06, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #basic-pipelining #prajun-t-notes #pipe-lining