list of buzzwords for Exam 1

science of tradeoff
Transformation Hierarchy
Algorithm
Moore's law
ISA
Cache Memory
Microarchitecture
Data Type
von neumann machine
Instruction Supply
Data Supply
Datapath
Issue width
Bandwidth Problem
Multicore
Soft Error
Partitioning
Critical Path design
Microinstruction
endianness (big-endian/little-endian)
Architecture Visible
fixed length vs. variable length
ISA
Microarchitecture
priority/privilege
Data Type
floating point
Instruction prefixes of x86
Control signals
Control store
wilkes diode matrices
Datapath
Bus
Interleaving
vector register
Vector Length register
Vector Stride register
Bank
unaligned access
uniform vs. non-uniform decode
opcode
CISC/RISC
Virtual Memory
Speculative Execution
Predicated Execution
load/store ISA
Horizontal microcode
Vertical microcode
mops/rops
nanocode
one level/two level microcode
IPC (instructions per cycle)
Branch Prediction
Contention
branch target buffer (branch history table)
register alias table (RAT) 
scoreboard
reorder buffer (ROB)
Tomasulo's algorithm
Reservation Station
register renaming 
Precise Exceptions
Load Store Queue
dataflow graph
queue dataflow
Branch Prediction
BTFN
Predicated execution
2-level adaptive branch predictor
GShare
HEP (Burton Smith)
von neumann machine
partitioning
architecture visible
load store queue