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Last Updated: 25 May 2002
Useful Web SitesA chapter-by-chatper list of related web sites. Suggestions for new links welcome.
Course Support Materials
Student Resource Site:
Help and advice for the long-suffering, overworked student.
Figures:
On-line transparency masters of figures from the book in PDF (Adobe Acrobat)
format.
Course
Notes: A detailed set of notes in PDF format suitable for student handout
or for use as viewgraphs. These notes were developed by Prof. N. J. Davis
of Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
PowerPoint
Slides: Developed by Adrian J Pullin of North East Wales Institute
Errata sheet: Latest list of errors, updated at most monthly. File name is Errata-COA5e-mmyy. If you spot any errors, please report them to 
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SimpleScalar:
The home page includes downloadable software and documentation.
NOTICE: No password is required for any downloads. Downloading sometimes fails, either because your browser mistakenly assumes a password is needed or for other reasons. If so, try using another browser or an FTP package. If that doesn't work, there might be a problem at your endor at your ISP, perhaps a firewall issue. Then you would need to talk to a system manager on your end.
COA CoursesInstructors might find these web sites for courses taught using this
book useful. I would appreciate hearing about web sites for other courses.
CS221 Computer Architecture. U. of Alaska. Includes good set of lecture notes..
CS3420 Computer Architecture. Chinese U. of Hong Kong. Includes good set of tutorial notes..
TDTS51 Advanced
Computer Architecture. Linköpings University in Sweden. Includes
very good set of lecture notes..
CS265
Computer Organization. Simpson College. Includes lecture notes and some
interesting links..
204521
Digital System Architecture. Kasetsart U., Bangkok. Includes powerpoint
slides.
E22/CS23
Principles of Computer Architecture. Swarthmore. Includes some good
VHDL-based labs, lecture notes, and some interesting links..
CS312 Computer
Architecture and Organization. At Central Washington University. Includes
some interesting link..
CSCI412
Architecture. At University of Louisiana at Monroe. Includes programming
problems, lecture notes, useful links.
CMP
348 Computer Structure and Assembly Language. At Franklin College in
Indiana. Includes programming problems.
EECE
337 Computer Architecture and Organization. At University of New Mexico.
Includes lecture notes and homework problems.
Suggestions, Please
If you have any suggestions for site content, please contact me at . In particular, please pass along links to relevant web sites and links to course pages used by instructors teaching from this book.
Useful Web Sites
WWW Computer
Architecture Home Page: A comprehensive index to information relevant
to computer architecture researchers, including architecture groups and
projects, technical organizations, literature, employment, and commercial
information.
CPU Info
Center. Information on specific processors, including technical papers,
product information, and latest announcements.
ACM Special Interest
Group on Computer Architecture. Information on SIGARCH activities and
publications, good set of useful links.
IEEE Technical Committee on Computer Architecture. Copies of TCCA newsletter,
useful links.
Intel
Technology Journal.
Intel's online publication.
Intel Developer's
Page. Intel's Web page for developers; provides a starting point for
accessing Pentium information.
PowerPC
Home Page. Motorola's home page for the PowerPC.
PowerPC
Home Page. IBM's home page for the PowerPC.
Top500 Supercomputer
Site. Interesting survey material on supercomputers.
Intel FTP Site. Provides
access to a wide range of Intel documents.
Charles Babbage Institute.
Provides links to a number of web sites dealing with the history of computers.
PCI
Pointers Links to PCI vendors and other sources of information..
PCI Special Interest
Group Information about PCI specifications and products.
The
RAM Guide Good overview of RAM technology plus a number of useful links.
RAID Advisory
Board RAID industry group.
T10 Home
Page. T10 is a Technical Committee of the National Committee on Information
Technology Standards and is responsible for lower-level interfaces. Its
principal work is the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI).
SCSI Trade Association.
Includes technical information and vendor pointers.
1394 Trade Association.
Includes technical information and vendor pointers on firewire.
I/O
Characterization and Optimization A facility dedicated to education
and research in the area of I/O design and performance. Useful tools and
tutorials. Operated by the U. of Illinois.
The Operating
System Resource Center A useful collection of documents and papers on
a wide range of OS topics.
Review
of Operating Systems A comprehensive review of commerical, free, research
and hobby OSs.
ACM Special Interest
Group on Operating Systems. Information on SIGOPS publications and conferences.
IEEE
754. The IEEE 754 documents, related publications and papers, and a
useful set of links related to computer arithmetic.
Gavin's
Guide to 80x86 Assembly. A good, concise overview of x86 assembler language.
The Art of Assembly
Language Programming. A 1500-page on-line mega-book on the subject.
Should be enough for any student of the subject.
IA-64.
Intel's site for the latest info on IA-64.
IMPACT.
This is a site at the University of Illinois, where much of the research
on predicated execution has been done. A number of papers on the subject
are available.
Journal of Instruction-Level
Parallelism. A web-first, paper-based journal of refereed papers.
IEEE
Computer Society Task Force on Cluster Computing An international forum
to promote cluster computing research and education.
Digial
Logic Home Page Diagrams of circuits.