Introduction to Computer Architecture Lecture Notes

Computer Architecture Introduction

The note will review fundamental structures in modern microprocessor and computer system architecture design. Topics covered includes: CPU Performance and Metrics, Instruction Set Architecture, Implementation and Pipelining, Exceptions, Multi-cycle Ops, Dynamic Scheduling, Dynamic Branch Prediction, Multiple Issue and Speculation,Static Scheduling, Loop Unrolling, and Software Pipelining, Caches, Main Memory, Virtual Memory, Multiprocessors, Multithreading and I/O.

Author(s): Maxwell Dworkin

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Computer Architecture Class notes

This note covers the following topics: Fundamentals of Computer Design, Basic Organization of a Computer, Instruction Set Design, Addressing Modes, CPU Implementation, Interrupts, The Memory Hierarchy, Virtual Memory.

Author(s): Virgil Bistriceanu

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Introduction to Computer Architecture Lecture Notes

Computer architecture is the science and art of selecting and interconnecting hardware components to create a computer that meets functional, performance and cost goals. In this note, students will learn how to completely design a correct single processor computer, including processor datapath, processor control, memory systems, and I/O. Topics covered includes: Performance, Instructions, Arithmetic, Datapath, Control, Exceptions, Pipelining, Caches, Memory and VM, Arithmetic, Multiprocessors.

Author(s): David A. Wood and T. A. Ramkumar Ravikumar

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Computer Architecture by University of Oslo

This note covers the following topics: Basics of computer architecture, Introduction to Digital Electronics, Binary Numbers, Boolean Algebra, Combinational Logic Circuits, Sequential Logic Circuits, Von Neumann Architecture, Optimizing Hardware Performance, Low-level programming, Programming in C, Character encodings, Assembly programming.

Author(s): Philipp Hafliger, Dag Langmyhr and Omid Mirmotahari

112 Pages

Computer System Architecture Lecture Notes

This note contains the study of the evolution of computer architecture and the factors influencing the design of hardware and software elements of computer systems. Topics covered includes: instruction set design, processor micro-architecture and pipelining, cache and virtual memory organizations, protection and sharing, I/O and interrupts, in-order and out-of-order superscalar architectures, VLIW machines, vector supercomputers, multithreaded architectures, symmetric multiprocessors, and parallel computers.

Author(s): Dr. Joel Emer, Prof. Krste Asanovic and Prof. Arvin

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Introduction to Computer Architecture Notes

This note will review fundamental structures in modern microprocessor and computer system architecture design. Topics covered includes: computer organization, instruction set design, memory system design, pipelining, and other techniques to exploit parallelism. It will also cover system level topics such as storage subsystems and basics of multiprocessor systems.

Author(s): David Brooks

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Introduction to Computer Architecture

This note will describe the basics of modern processor operation. Topics covered includes: computer system performance, instruction set architectures, pipelining, branch prediction, memory-hierarchy design, and a brief introduction to multiprocessor architecture issues.

Author(s): Steven Swanson

NA Pages

Advanced Computer Architecture (PDF 76P)

This book covers the following topics: Introduction to the SPARC Architecture, Assembling and Debugging, Control Transfer Instructions, Logical and Arithmetic Operations, Data Types and Addressing, Subroutines and Parameter Passing, Instruction Encoding.

Author(s): George Wells

76 Pages