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Course pages 2024–25

Introduction to Computer Architecture

Course Handout

The following materials are available for those in the cam.ac.uk domain. Lectures are being presented live. For videos - see below.

  • Computer Design handout PDF
  • Slides (one per page): PDF

Laboratories

The ECAD+Arch laboratory sessions are loosely coupled to this lecture course. Please review the laboratory pages since there is a compulsory component.

Supervision Exercises

Recommended text

Computer Organization and Design - the hardware/software interface (RISC-V edition), Patterson and Hennessy, 2017.

Supervision Guide

Supervision exercises are available here: Supervision Questions (PDF). Supervisors can find sample answers on the supervisors tab.

Additional Material

  • The RISC-V instruction set reference manual is available from the RISC-V foundation as a PDF

Past Exam Questions

Please note that the course used to be called Computer Design, so past exam questions are under that title: Past Exam Questions in Computer Design

Errata

Nothing here; let's hope it remains that way!