Important ideas in computer architecture

Eight great ideas in computer architecture that lasted long

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Moore’s Law states that integrated circuit resources double every 18–24 months

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A minor productivity technique for hardware and software is to use abstractions to characterize the design at different levels of representation

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Making the common case fast will tend to enhance performance better than optimizing the rare case

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Designs offering computing operations in parallel get more performance

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Pipelining pattern, which a form of parallelism so prevalent in computer architecture helped to boost performance in computer architecture

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You can enhance performance in computer architecture by using prediction

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Hierarchy of memories provided a solution for programmers to have a cheap, fast and large memory with the fastest, smallest, and the most expensive memory per bit at the top of the hierarchy and the slowest, largest, and cheapest per bit at the bottom

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Since any physical device can fail, we make systems dependable by including redundant components that can take over when a failure occurs and to help detect failures

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