Right now, I'm considering Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach. Any experience with this one? I'm after both a fairly good coverage of architecture and theory but if you could find one ...

The traditional H&P (COaD) is a safe bet for any first or second course in computer architecture. I haven't spent more than a few minutes with CA but I can tell you that neither book is going to ...

Design and understanding of the computer system as a whole unit. Performance Evaluation and its role in computer system design; Instruction Set Architecture design, Datapath design and optimizations ...

Memory system design introduction. Week 7: Memory system design: memory operation scheduling/memory renaming, advanced caches, pre-fetching, main memory systems, modern DRAM technologies. Week 8: ...

1st course in the FPGA Design for Embedded Systems SpecializationInstructor: ... Digital Logic Design, and basic computer architecture. Students should have a first course in each of these subjects.