4. CPU Design and Architecture

4.1 CPU Design

Visit the following links for information on CPU Design.

• Hamburg University VHDL archive http://tech-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/vhdl
• Kachina Design tools http://SAL.KachinaTech.COM/Z/1/index.shtml
• List of FPGA-based Computing Machines http://www.io.com/~guccione/HW_list.html
• SPARC International http://www.sparc.com
• Design your own processor http://www.spacetimepro.com
• Teaching Computer Design with FPGAs http://www.fpgacpu.org
• Technical Committee on Computer Architecture http://www.computer.org/tab/tcca

• Frequently Asked Questions FAQ on VHDL http://www.vhdl.org/vi/comp.lang.vhdl or it is at http://www.vhdl.org/comp.lang.vhdl
• Comp arch FAQ http://www.esacademy.com/automation/faq.htm
• Comp arch FAQ ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/arch
• VME Bus FAQ http://www.hitex.com/automation/FAQ/vmefaq

• Homepage of SPEC http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/spec.html
• Linux benchmarks http://www.silkroad.com/linux-bm.html

4.2 Online Textbooks on CPU Architecture

• Online HTML book http://odin.ee.uwa.edu.au/~morris/CA406/CA_ToC.html
• Univ of Texas Comp arch : http://www.cs.panam.edu/~meng/Course/CS4335/Notes/master/master.html
• Number systems and Logic circuits : http://www.tpub.com/neets/book13/index.htm
• Digital Logic: http://www.play-hookey.com/digital
• FlipFlops: http://www.ece.utexas.edu/~cjackson/FlipFlops/web_pages/Publish/FlipFlops.html
• Instruction Execution cycle: http://cq-pan.cqu.edu.au/students/timp1/exec.html
• Truth Table constructor: http://pirate.shu.edu/~borowsbr/Truth/Truth.html
• Overview of Shared Memory: http://www.sics.se/cna/mp_overview.html
• Simulaneous Multi-threading in processors : http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/smt
• Study Web : http://www.studyweb.com/links/277.html
• Univ notes: http://www.ece.msstate.edu/~linder/Courses/EE4713/notes
• Advice: An Adaptable and Extensible Distributed Virtual Memory Architecture http://www.gsyc.inf.uc3m.es/~nemo/export/adv-pdcs96/adv-pdcs96.html
• Univ of Utah Avalanche Scalable Parallel Processor Project http://www.cs.utah.edu/avalanche/avalanche-publications.html
• Distributed computing : http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/4015/pdcindex.html
• Pisma Memory architecture: http://aiolos.cti.gr/en/pisma/pisma.html
• Shared Mem Arch: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/General/Exemplar/ARPA
• Textbooks on Comp Arch: http://www.rdrop.com/~cary/html/computer_architecture.html#book and VLSI design http://www.rdrop.com/~cary/html/vlsi.html

• Comp Arch Conference and Journals http://www.handshake.de/user/kroening/conferences.html
• WWW Comp arch page http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~arch/www

4.3 University Lecture notes on CPU Architecture

• Advanced Computer Architecture http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/dahlin/Classes/GradArch
• Computer architecture - Course level 415 http://www.diku.dk/teaching/2000f/f00.415
• MIT: http://www.csg.lcs.mit.edu/6.823
• UBC CPU slides : http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/neufeld/courses/cs218/chapter8/index.htm
• Purdue Univ slides: http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~gba/ee565/Sessions/S03HTML/index.htm
• Rutgers Univ - Principles of Comp Arch : http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~murdocca/POCA/Chapter02.html
• Brown Univ - http://www.engin.brown.edu/faculty/daniels/DDZO/cmparc.html
• Univ of Sydney - Intro Digital Systems : http://www.eelab.usyd.edu.au/digital_tutorial/part3
• Bournemouth Univ, UK Principles of Computer Systems : http://ncca.bournemouth.ac.uk/CourseInfo/BAVisAn/Year1/CompSys
• Parallel Virtual machine: http://www.netlib.org/pvm3/book/node1.html
• univ center: http://www.eecs.lehigh.edu/~mschulte/ece401-99
• univ course: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/fussell/cs352
• Examples of working VLSI circuits(in Greek) http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~gef/projects/vlsi

4.4 CPU Architecture

Visit the following links for information on CPU architecture

• Comp architecture: http://www.rdrop.com/~cary/html/computer_architecture.html and VLSI design http://www.rdrop.com/~cary/html/vlsi.html
• Beyond RISC - The Post-RISC Architecture http://www.cps.msu.edu/~crs/cps920
• Beyond RISC - PostRISC : http://www.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~e106170/postrisc.html
• List of CPUS http://einstein.et.tudelft.nl/~offerman/cl.contents2.html
• PowerPC Arch http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.10/10.08/PowerPcArchitecture
• CPU Info center - List of CPUs sparc, arm etc.. http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/CIC/tech
• cpu arch intel IA 64 http://developer.intel.com/design/ia-64
• Intel 386 CPU architecture http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/ug/asm/about-386.html
• Freedom CPU architecture http://f-cpu.tux.org/original/Freedom.php3
• Z80 CPU architecture http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/3938/z80arki.htm
• CRIMSEN OS and teaching-aid CPU http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~ian/project3/node1.html
• Assembly Language concepts http://www.cs.uaf.edu/~cs301/notes/Chapter1/node1.html
• Alpha CPU architecture http://www.linux3d.net/cpu/CPU/alpha/index.shtml
• http://hugsvr.kaist.ac.kr/~exit/cpu.html
• Tron CPU architecture http://tronweb.super-nova.co.jp/tronvlsicpu.html

4.5 Usenet Newsgroups for CPU design

• Newsgroup computer architecture news:comp.arch
• Newsgroup FPGA news:comp.arch.fpga
• Newsgroup Arithmetic news:comp.arch.arithmetic
• Newsgroup Bus news:comp.arch.bus
• Newsgroup VME Bus news:comp.arch.vmebus
• Newsgroup embedded news:comp.arch.embedded
• Newsgroup embedded piclist news:comp.arch.embedded.piclist
• Newsgroup storage news:comp.arch.storage
• Newsgroup VHDL news:comp.lang.vhdl
• Newsgroup Computer Benchmarks news:comp.benchmarks