Texts and references

Textbooks & References

1.  Required Textbooks

• David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware and Software Interface Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Fifth Edition, ISBN: 9780124077263

2.  Error Correction codes

• Error correction code handout

3.  Recommended Reading

• Shing Kong, Revised by Milo Martin, The Elements of Logic Design Style
  Online: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~milom/elements-of-logic-design-style/
• Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
  Amazon.com link

4.  Other References

• MIPS ISA Manual relevant pages
• ACM Digital Library (full text from on-campus IP addresses)
• IEEE Xplore (full text from on-campus IP addresses)
• Computer Architecture Conferences and other Information
• Wisconsin CS's Computer Architecture Group
• International Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) gives semiconductor trends
• Intel Museum Online
• Silicon Zoo "...a new collection of photomicrographs (photographs taken through a microscope) featuring many of the interesting silicon creatures and other doodling scribbled onto integrated circuits by engineers when they were designing computer chip masks"