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title: PCS keywords per chapter

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# PCS keywords per chapter

# chapter 1
Data dependencies
Register renaming
Data flow graph
Issue buffer
Reorder buffer

# chapter 2
Control instructions
Branch predictors

# chapter 3
Out of order
Load bypassing/forwarding
Reorder buffer
Register renaming
(Non-)data-captured organization

# chapter 4
Write-through (= write to each level of hiërarchy)
Write-back (=only mark as dirty)
Write (no)-allocate
Direct-mapped cache
Set-associative cache
Fully-associative cache
Victim cache
Memory hierarchy optimizations
* Latency hiding
    * Non-blocking cache
    * OOO execution
    * Parallelism
    * Prefetching
        * Stream buffer
    * Address prediction
    * Value prediction

# chapter 5
Performance

# chapter 6
(De)centralized reservation station 
Power/energy/thermal relation
Power related metrics
Clock gating
Failures/faults

# chapter 7
Cache coherence
Multi threading
SMP (symmetric (shared-memory) multi processor)

# chapter 8
Memory consistency
Relaxed consistency etc.

# chapter 9

# chapter 10
