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Computer Design

Lecturer: Dr I.A. Pratt and others (iap10@cl.cam.ac.uk)

No. of lectures: 16

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. (2002). Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach. Morgan Kaufmann (3rd ed.). (2nd edition, 1996, is also good.)
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
Wed Sep 4 14:43:05 BST 2002