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The lectures also cover the following papers (not included in the textbooks) for selected topics in class.

For lecture 07
1. "Performance from architecture: comparing a RISC and a CISC with similar hardware organization," (pdf)
  D. Bhandarkar and D. W. Clark, Proc. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, pp. 310-319, April 1991.
For lecture 10
1. "Implementation of precise interrupts in pipelined processors," (pdf)
  J. E. Smith and A. Pleszkun, Proc. International Symposium on Computer Architecture, pp. 291-299, 1985.
For lecture 12
1. "An efficient algorithm for exploiting multiple arithmetic units," (pdf)
  R. M. Tomasulo, IBM Journal of Research and Development, vol. 11, pp. 25-33, January 1967.
For lecture 13
1. "Trace scheduling: a technique for global microcode compaction," (pdf)
  J. A. Fisher, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol c-30, no 7. pp. 478-490, July 1981.
For lecture 18
1. "The priority-based coloring approach to register allocation," (pdf)
  F. C. Chow and J. L. Hennessy, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, vol. 12, no. 4, October 1990, pp. 501-536.

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