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Computer Design

Lecturer: Dr S.W. Moore (swm11@cl.cam.ac.uk)

No. of lectures: 16

This course is a prerequisite for Comparative Architectures (Part II) and VLSI Design (Part II).


Aims


The aims of this course are to introduce the hardware/software interface models and the hardware structures used in designing computers. The first eight lectures are concerned with the hardware/software interface and cover the programmer's model of the computer. The last eight lectures look at hardware implementation issues at a register transfer level.


Lectures

Objectives


At the end of the course students should

Recommended books


Hennessy, J.L. & Patterson, D.A. (1996). Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach. Morgan Kaufmann (2nd ed.).
Patterson, D.A. & Hennessy, J.L. (1998). Computer Organization and Design. Morgan Kaufmann (2nd ed.).


Pointers to sources of more specialist information are included in the lecture notes and on the associated course web page.



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Christine Northeast
Tue Sep 4 09:34:31 BST 2001