Texts and references

1.  Required Texts

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

2.  Recommended Texts

• Shing Kong, Revised by Milo Martin, The Elements of Logic Design Style,
  Online: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~milom/elements-of-logic-design-style/

3.  Other handouts and reference

• Verilog demo code
  • Code from verilog demo: 4 bit register (To extract: tar -xvf demo_4bit_reg.tar)
  • Code from verilog demo: fsm (combinational logic implemented using a case statement) (To extract: tar -xvf demo_fsm_case.tar)
  • Code from verilog demo: fsm (combinational logic implemented using assign statement and bitwise operators) (To extract: tar -xvf demo_fsm_assign.tar)
• MIPS ISA Manual relevant pages
• RAID handout
• Error correction codes 1
• Error correction codes 2
• Booth algorithm handout prepared by Prof. Wood and Tony Nowatzki

4.  Highly recommended optional reading

• Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
  Amazon.com link

5.  Online References

• 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".