Computer architecture is a set of rules and methods that describe the functionality, organization, and implementation of computer systems.

Course: Advanced Computer Architecture, Spring 2020
Taught by: Prof. Govindarajulu Regeti

• cpu_basic: Design of a pentium-like 32-bit CPU.

• DDR, GDDR, HBM SDRAM Memory

• RISC-V offers simple, modular ISA

• High Bandwidth Memory
• Hybrid Memory Cube
• GDDR5 SDRAM
• GDDR4 SDRAM
• DDR4 SDRAM
• DDR3 SDRAM
• DDR SDRAM
• ECC memory
• Vector processor

See cpu_basic for project implementation.

Courses:

• https://www.escalab.org/classes/cs203-2019fa/
• https://passlab.github.io/CSCE513/
• https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/comparch.md
• https://cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/cse596/

RISCV simulator:

• https://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61c/fa19/
• http://www.kvakil.me/venus/

CS252:

• https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/nsrivast/cs252.html
• http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs152/sp18/
• https://web.njit.edu/~sohna/cs252/
• https://www.seas.harvard.edu/courses/cs252/2019sp/schedule.html
• https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/cs252/

Technical reports:

• https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2014/

MulSim: multiprocessor simulator:

• http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/mulsim.html

Gem5 simulator:

• http://www.gem5.org/Main_Page

Design and simulate a processor:

• https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2445196.2445296
• https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7324067
• http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www/tools.html

RISCV assembly language programming:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLybwrpfQ3I
• https://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61c/sp19/
• https://smist08.wordpress.com/2019/09/07/risc-v-assembly-language-hello-world/

A Domain Specific Architecture for Deep Neural Networks:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbO_pIQLP34&feature=emb_logo

A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture:

• https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/2/234352-a-new-golden-age-for-computer-architecture/fulltext