Digital Design & Comp Arch - Lecture 9: ISA and Microarchitecture (Tradeoffs)

Lecture 9: ISA & Microarchitecture Fundamentals I
Date: March 23, 2023

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[ManasBuzruk]

The screen flickering is causing a bit inconvenience in this video.

[willemhekman]

This makes me wonder how/if the use of eg x86 (with all it's legacy parts) gives us overhead (in various modern use cases).
- Does it cost much effort) to do hardware translation (relatively)?
- How much hardware translation is typically involved for modern consumer chips?
(hard to put a number on it but I wonder about the part of the gap between HLL and HW bridged by hardware translation)
I am eager to know more about the subject :-)
Super interesting all these trade-offs, now I start to see the "art" in the design choices.