COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

• LECTURES

• Berkeley CS 61C

  INTRODUCTORY
  video
  course website
  
  explains computer architectures concepts from basics using MIPS architecture and C
  builds processor with cache and works on basics of necessary topics
  not very information dense, watch at least at 1.25x speed
  

• DDCA

  INTRODUCTORY
  video
  course website
  
  explain computer architecture concepts with MIPS and C
  quite fast paced course with a lot of links to papers
  quite information dense by covering many areas
  

• ACA

  INTERMEDIATE
  video
  course website
  
  quite information dense and many interesting papers
  atypical topics, covers memory, mulithreading and interconnects
  but Mutlu spends a lot of time on philosophy of why and how to do something
  

• Berkeley CS 152/252A

  INTERMEDIATE
  video
  course website
  
  covers more typical info related to computer architecture: pipelines, OOE, memory, parallelism
  useful discussion sessions
  not very information dense but has interesting papers on website
  

• Udemy HPCA

  INTERMEDIATE
  video (link is only to part1, there are 6 parts available on youtube)
  
  very information dense and in depth about many concepts
  after theory there are questions to answer which verify understanding
  only downside is inconvienient short format
  

• BOOKS

  • Computer Organization and Design

    INTRODUCTORY
    link: https://books.google.com/books?id=rlkXwAEACAAJ
    
    used by many university coures
    covers basics of computer architecture using arm/mips/riscv (depends on edition)
    

  • Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective

    INTRODUCTORY
    link: https://books.google.com/books?id=4n4ZAQAAIAAJ
    
    first six chapters are about computer architecture related topics, rest are about software
    very good book, problems appear between text to immediately provoke thinking (global edition contains errors)
    however as the name suggests it is mainly focused on programmer's perspective so some details and more advanced HW concepts are ommited
    

  • Digital Computer Electronics

    INTRODUCTORY
    link: https://books.google.com/books?id=HGVTAAAAMAAJ
    
    covers basics of logic gates, transistors, boolean algebra, later switches to computer architecture features
    old book, does not go in depth, presents few simple custom architectures
    later chapters are more focused on computer architecture and relate features to existing microprocessors
    

  • Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors

    INTERMEDIATE
    link: https://books.google.com/books?id=ffQqAAAAQBAJ
    
    a bit dated but covers topics for superscalar execution in great depth, but some, especially later, are barely touched
    has interesting HW problems that are more mostly thought provoking and not pure computation or checking answer in the book
    2 chapters are dedicated to explain 2 real world architectures in quite depth
    1 chapter contains speedrun description of many architectures with references to deeper explanations
    

  • Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach

    INTERMEDIATE
    link: https://books.google.com/books?id=cM8mDwAAQBAJ
    
    still reading, seems good