UNIT 1 - EIGHT GREAT IDEAS

2. EIGHT GREAT IDEAS OF COMPUTER
ARCHITECTURE
 Design for Moore’s Law
 Use Abstraction to Simplify the Design
 Make the Common case Fast
 Performance via Parallelism
 Performance via Pipelining
 Performance via Prediction
 Hierarchy of Memories
 Dependability via Redundancy

3. 1. DESIGN FOR MOORE'S LAW
SSI
MSI
LSI
VLSI
ULSI
GLSI
In 1965, Gordon E. Moore—co-founder of Intel (NASDAQ:
INTC)—postulated that the number of transistors that can
be packed into a given unit of space will double about
every two years.

4. 2. USE ABSTRACTION TO SIMPLIFY THE DESIGN

5. 3. MAKE THE COMMON CASE FAST

6. 4. PERFORMANCE VIA PARALLELISM

7. 5. PERFORMANCE VIA PIPELINING

8. 6. PERFORMANCE VIA PREDICTION

9. 7. HIERARCHY OF MEMORIES

10. 8. DEPENDABILITY VIA REDUNDANCY