Computer Architecture

These lecture notes, written by David A. Wood and T. A. Ramkumar Ravikumar, summarize the basics necessary to understand computer architecture. This course material gives an exhaustive introduction to designing a singleprocessor computer by covering processor datapath, control units, and memory systems. It covers all aspects of performance metrics, instruction execution, arithmetic operations, and control mechanisms. Further, it covers pipelining, caching, and virtual memory management. They also discuss the multiprocessor systems and consideration in their design. The comprehensive guide is targeted at students and professionals who want to understand a broad view of computer architecture and practical applications.

This note explains the following topics, Number Systems and Arithmetic, Boolean Algebra, Karnaugh Maps, The Quine McCluskey Algorithm, Combinational Circuits, Synchronous Sequential Logic, Registers and Counters, Register Transfer and Micro operations, Basic Computer Organization and Design, Micro programmed Control, Floating Point Data, Pipeline and Vector Processing.

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.

This is a comprehensive 118page detailed note on advanced topics in computer architecture. This starts with the principles of processor performance and the basics of RISC and CISC architecture classification. The document investigates the basics of pipelining and its hazards, and some advanced architectures like superscalar and superpipelined systems. Very Long Instruction Word VLIW architectures and basic multiprocessor designs are also emphasized. This note explains Flynns classification, array processors, vector processors, associative processors, and systolic architectures. Hierarchical memory technology is discussed followed by various computing models that work on these computing devices, such as data flow computers and cloud computing. The two sections in this resource will be useful to those who want to address current developments and architectures in computer systems.

Computer Architecture studies the techniques used to design and implement the principle components of a computer system and the mechanisms that can be used to quantitatively evaluate the expected performance capabilities of the different design possibilities. This page covers the following topics related to Computer Architecture, Introduction, Historical Overview, Fundamentals of Computer Design, Optimizations of the Memory Hierarchy,Instruction Level Parallelism, Data Parallelism, ThreadLevel Parallelism, Warehouse Computing, Domain Specific Architecture.

This PDF covers the following topics related to Computer Architecture , Introduction, Instruction Set Architecture, Computer Arithmetic, Control unit, Processor Design, S1 a simple CPU, Pipeline, Instruction Level Parallelism, Vector machines, Memory System Design, Magnetic Disk, Future architecture.

This note covers computer organization and instructions, Arithmetic, The processor, Memory and input output Organization and advanced computer architecture.

This note contains below topics, Basic computer organization, CPU organization and instruction set architecture, Register transfer and control unit design, Computer arithmetic, Memory hierarchy, cache, and virtual memory, Input output organization and pipelining.