• Catalog Description
• Textbook
• Approximate Timeline
• Grading and Examination Dates
• Homeworks and Exams
• Laboratory Projects
• Other Web Pages of Interest

Textbook

Download the errata (PDF format) for the textbook. You can view PDF files using the Acrobat PDF Reader.

Other reference books:

• Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface by David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy.

Approximate Timeline

Grading

Homeworks

• Homework 1. (due 2/11/98)
• Homework 2. (due 3/31/98)
• Homework 3. (due 4/22/98)
• Homework 4. (due 5/6/98)

Laboratory Projects

• Project 1. (due 3/9/98)
• Project 2. (due 4/13/98)
• Project 3. (due 5/15/98)

Local guide to VHDL. (Postscript,   HTML)

You can download the VHDL software required for the projects from the ALLIANCE home page. Binaries for PCs running Linux are available.

You can also download a gzipped tar file containing a subset of the Alliance VHDL (binaries for PCs running Linux). That contains everything you need for the VHDL programming assignments.

Other Web Pages of Interest

• Confused with all the acronyms? Check out the The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, Editor Denis Howe. The dictionary has quite good descriptions of thousands of terms and concepts. Try DRAM as a starter!
• VHDL Cookbook.
• CPU Info Center. Check this page out for the latest information on hot chips, including pictures of the dies.
• Summary of major CPUs, from earliest to latest versions.
• Great Microprocessors of the Past and Present.
• Computer Architecture Home Page.
• Al Davis's Architecure Class Home Page.