Computer Organization and Architecture

Resources

Lecture Slides

Some of these slides include publicly available material from various professors/experts across the world. I have tried to give appropriate attribution as much as possbile. If you are the owner of any of the content (such as images), and think that it has been improperly used, kindly let me know. I shall either attribute it to you or remove it, as per your request.

• CPU Architecture
• Performance Evaluation
• Intro to Memory
• Pipelining

Reference Books

• Book by Hennessy and Patterson
• Book by Morris Mano

History of computing

A stack of very interesting historical resources.

Story of the first microprocesors

IEEE Spectrum article

MP944: One of the earliest microprocesors

MP944 Engineering Notebook

x86 Assembly Guide

x86 ISA

MIPS Greensheet

MIPS ISA