Anna University ME CSE Syllabus

Can you provide me the syllabus of M.E. Computer Science and Engineering course of Anna University, Chennai as I want to check it before taking admission in the course?

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M.E. Computer Science and Engineering course of Anna University, Chennai prepare students to review and understand foundational Concepts in Computer Science and Engineering.

Anna University ME CSE Syllabus

MULTI-CORE ARCHITECTURE

UNIT I NEED FOR MULTICORE ARCHITECTURES
Fundamentals of Computer Design - Measuring and Reporting Performance - Instruction Level Parallelism and its Exploitation - Concepts and Challenges – Limitations of ILP – Multithreading - SMT and CMP Architectures – The Multicore era.

UNIT II MULTIPROCESSOR ISSUES
Symmetric and Distributed Shared Memory Architectures – Cache Coherence Issues - Performance Issues – Synchronization Issues – Models of Memory Consistency - Interconnection Networks – Buses, Crossbar and Multi-stage Interconnection Networks.

UNIT III MULTICORE ARCHITECTURES
Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Architectures – Intel Multicore Architectures – SUN CMP architecture – IBM Cell Architecture – GPGPU Architectures.

UNIT IV MEMORY HIERARCHY DESIGN
Introduction - Optimizations of Cache Performance - Memory Technology and Optimizations - Protection: Virtual Memory and Virtual Machines - Design of Memory Hierarchies - Case Studies.

UNIT V MULTICORE PROGRAMMING
Parallel Programming models – Shared Memory Programming – Message Passing Interface – Open MP Program Development and Performance Tuning.