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Computer Design

Lecturer: Dr S.W. Moore

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., as an alternative to the above).


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
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