On-line Computer Architecture Information

• Dr. Britton's PPT lecture slides in ZIP archive format.
• Dr. Waldron's lecture slides index.
• Dr. J's (Graduate) Computer Architecture Reading List.

• Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) website at www.semichips.org
• Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) website at www.semi.org, "the semiconductor industry's #1 bookmark"

• HOT CHIPS Symposium on High Performance Chips
• HOT Interconnects Symposium on High Performance Interconnects
• Computer History Museum (CHM)
• COOL CHIPS Symposium on Low-Power and High-Speed Chips

• The Computer Architecture FAQ
• The Computer Architecture WWW Page
• Web notes from the HyperPhysics website at Georgia State University.
• Supercomputing, Parallel Processors and High Performance Computing (SCPPHPC) - a CompInfo Directory
• SIGARCH - The ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture
• SIGMICRO - The ACM Special Interest Group on Microarchitecture
• SIGMETRICS - The ACM Special Interest Group for the computer/communication system performance community
• IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture (TCCA)
• The Journal of Instruction-Level Parallelism (JILP)

• Usenet - comp.arch
• Usenet - comp.arch.arithmetic
• Usenet - comp.dsp

On-line Demos, Simulators, etc.

• Programmed Introduction to MIPS Assembly Language, by Bradley Kjell, Central Connecticut State University, 2004.
• A collection of web demos from the Hamburg Design System (HADES), including
  • CMOS gate demonstration
  • Karnaugh-Veitch-diagram applet (KVD)
  • the Hamburg Design System (HADES) interactive simulation framework
• Carl Burch's Logisim graphical tool for designing and simulating digital logic circuits.
• Brian Boothe's Probe applet, digital logic circuit simulator designed for academic use.
• Andreas Tetzl's LogicSim Java Logic Simulator
• Kazuhiko Arase's Simcir circuit simulator
• HASE, Hierarchical computer Architecture design and Simulation Environment, and related computer architecture simulation and visualization tools: SimJava, WebHASE, and JavaHASE.
• J-MIPS - The Java MIPS simulator
• RaVi (Rechnerarchitektur Visualisierung), Visualization of Computer Architecture.

Computer Architecture Research Groups

• in Berkeley:
  • Computing Architecture and Engineering Research (CAER) Index
  • Berkeley Reconfigurable Architectures, Systems, and Software (BRASS) Research Group
  • Network of Workstations (NOW Project), and CAL Millennium clusters of clusters on a campus-wide scale
  • Intelligent RAM (IRAM) Project
• in CMU:
  • Parallel Data Laboratory (PDL)
  • Microarchitecture Research Team (CMµART)
• in Stanford:
  • Computer Architecture and Arithmetic (CAA) Group
  • Concurrent VLSI Architecture (CVA) Group
  • FLASH (FLexible Architecture for SHared memory) Multiprocessor Project
  • HYDRA Next Generation Microarchitecture Project
• Computer Architecture Research Laboratory (CARL) at UC Davis
• Concurrent Systems Architecture Group (CSAG) at UCSD
• Advanced Computer Architecture Laboratory (ACAL) at USC's Information Sciences Institute (ISI)
• in University of Wisconsin-Madison:
  • the Wisconsin Multiscalar project of the Computer Architecture Group (CAG)
  • off-shoot: SimpleScalar architectural research tool set
• Steve Furber's AMULET Group at The University of Manchester
• in New Mexico State University
  • Parallel Architecture Research Laboratory (PARL)
  • TraceBase - traces of memory reference streams and network packet streams
• Architecture & Language Implementation (ALI) at University of Massachusetts
• Advanced Computer Architecture Laboratory (ACAL) at The University of Michigan
• The Globus Project on computational grids

Reference Books

Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance, 6/e William Stallings, 2003 Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey ISBN 0-13-035119-9

Readings in Computer Architecture Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, and Gurindar S. Sohi (Eds.), 1999 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, California ISBN 1-55860-539-8

ARM System-on-Chip Architecture, 2/e Steve B. Furber, 2000 Addison Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts ISBN 0-201-67519-6

The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman (Eds.), 1998 Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, California ISBN 1-55860-475-8

Do you have any suggestions for more stuff to add here? Please send e-mail to Dr. J at Juliano@ecst.csuChico.edu.