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Systems Ph.D. Programming Languages Qualifying Exam in Computer Science

Details and Reading List, Spring 2010

Examiner: Professor Kunle Olukotun
Last updated: 07 Apr 2010 - 03:35

This qual will cover any ideas, topics and reading covered in the following courses:

  • EE282: Computer Systems Architecture
  • EE382A?: Advanced Processor Architecture
  • CS315A?: Parallel Computer Architecture and Programming

You will be expected to be very conversant with the key ideas in computer architecture: Levels of abstraction (e.g. ISA→processor→RTL blocks→gates), pipelining, caching, prediction, virtualization and parallelism. As someone taking the architecture qual, you will be expected to have a fairly sophisticated knowledge of these topics.

Reading List

  • Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, 3rd Edition , Hennessy & Patterson.

Format

15-20 minute oral exam

Scheduling

Arrange with Darlene Hadding (darlene@csl.stanford.edu)
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