Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations (e.g., ALU); Control design; Single cycle, multiple cycle and ...

Hennessey and D. Patterson, Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach , Morgan Kaufmann, 3rd edition (2002) COURSE GOALS: To learn designing and implementing processor architecture and learn to ...

For my latest publications, please see my group's publications page. If you are interested in learning about Computer Architecture, please enroll in my Massively Open Online Course in Computer ...

Examines the basic functional components of a computer system including the CPU, memory systems, and I/O systems. Each of these three areas will be developed in detail with a focus on the system ...

Hennessy and David A. Patterson described the present as the “golden age of computer architecture”. Compared to the early days of MS-DOS, when designing user- and kernel-space interactions was ...

How much energy is consumed each time we upload an image to social media, which relies on data centers and cloud storage?

Talk to many architects, and they'll likely tell you that Autodesk's software, including AutoCAD and Revit, has been ...

Alice & Bob, a Paris-based startup that is a pioneer in the area of cat qubit quantum architecture ... building a “fault tolerant” quantum computer (accepting errors and working around ...