Computer Architecture

IBM Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator (ca. 1948).

My Pages:

• Essay: How to Write an Abstract (tailored for Computer Engineers)
• The Architecture of Supercomputers: Titan, a Case Study
  (includes Gordon Bell's Eleven Rules for supercomputer design)
• An Architecture for Combinator Graph Reduction -- Complete Book On-line.
  (General purpose architectures meet advanced programming language implementation techniques)

Also, see my Stack Computer page and Embedded Computing page.

Pointers:

• CMU wearable computer home page
• WWW Computer Architecture Home Page
• EE/CS Mother Site
• IEEE Conference Abstracts
• CPU Info Center
• Chip directory
• IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture
• ACM SIGARCH
• CNE tutorial modules including virtual memory and network tutorials
• Generations: Tour of computer architecture history | History of personal computing
• Mark Smotherman's page of computer architects
• Dead Supercomuter Society
• George Mason Univ. Computing Technology tutorial modules

• Microcontrollers in perspective (slightly dated, but makes the point about why microcontrollers are important)

Books:

• Computer Architecture: a Quantitative Approach, Hennessy & Patterson; Morgan Kauffmann, 1996 (2nd. ed.).
  (the current standard for workstation-class computer design)
• Computer Architecture: pipelined and parallel processor design, Flynn; Jones & Bartlett, 1995.
  (because a diversity of views builds stronger understanding)
• Computer Structures: principles and examples, Siewiorek, Bell & Newell; McGraw-Hill, 1982.
  (because those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it!)

News Groups:

• comp.arch
• comp.compilers

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