Here are notes for ECE668 Computer Architecture in UMass, taught by Yadi Eslami
- Analyze characteristics of computer architecture
- Define architecture as instruction set architecture and hardware organization to provide an interface between hardware design and software design
- Performance Analysis (Chapter 1+)
- Processor Design: Instruction-level Parallelism, Pipelining (Appendix C, Chapter 3)
- Memory Design: Memory Hierarchy, Cache Memory, Secondary Memory (Appendix B, Chapter 2)
- Storage systems and Input/Output (Appendix D)
- Vector Computers and GPUs (Chapter 4) (time permitting)
- Midterm — 40%
- Final Exam - 50%
- Online Quizzes — 10%
- Homework Assignments — 5%
主教材：
Hennessy, J. L., & Patterson, D. A. (2019). Computer architecture: A quantitative approach (6th ed.). Waltham, MA: Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-12-811905-1
- Chapters 1-4 and Appendices A-D
辅助教材：
Patterson, D. A., & Hennessy, J. L. (2014). Computer organization and design: The hardware / software interface (4th ed.). Burlington, MA: Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-407726-3
- Chapters 1-6 and Appendices A-E
Flynn, M. J. (1995). Computer architecture: Pipelined and parallel processor design. Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett.
Heuring, V. P., & Jordan, H. F. (2004). Computer systems design and architecture (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
Hwang, K. (1993). Advanced computer architecture: Parallelism, scalability, programmability. New Delhi: McGraw-Hill.
Shen, J. P., & Lipasti, M. H. (2005). Modern processor design: Fundamentals of superscalar processors. Long Grove, IL: McGraw-Hill.
Technical papers (list provided in Course webpage)
- Logic design
- Logical equations, schematic diagrams, FSMs, components (MUX, ALU)
- Basic machine structure
- Processor (data path, control, arithmetic), memory, I/O
- Instruction sets
- Types of instructions, instruction formats
- Read and write in an assembly language
- MIPS preferred
- Understand the concepts of pipelining and virtual memory