Course pages 2015–16
Computer Design
Course Handout
For parts 1 and 2 of the course, people in Cambridge may download the lecture notes as a PDF. Please observe the copyright notice. Please note that lectures 5 and 6 are missing since they are a work in progress as the ECAD+Arch laboratory sessions are finalised.
Lecture 5 on RISC-V is available: lecture 5 handout as a PDF
Lecture 6 on YARVI is available: lecture 6 handout as a PDF
Part 3 is also available in PDF as lecture notes and slides
Supervision Exercises
For parts 1 and 2 of the course, the supervision exercises are included in the handout near the back but can also be found here: PDF of the exercises parts 1 and 2
Part 3 supervision exercises are available here: PDF
Laboratories
There are laboratory sessions associated with this course called ECAD+Arch. Sign-up for these at the first Computer Design lecture.
Additional Material
Simon made a mistake during lecture 12 and skipped over the last few slides by accident. To remedy the situation, he has provided a video recording of the missing bit of the lecture which is available on YouTube: Last part of Lecture 12 video
You can find out more about the Fermi GPU microarchitecture from Nvidia both on the Wikipedia page, and from this whitepaper.