COM 1130 Computer Organization and Design

Fall 2000

David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy. Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface. Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, 1998.
COM1130 packet: The lectures, plus introductions to some course tools: Xemacs, emacs, and the official debugger.

(Recommended) Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie. The C Programming Language: Second Edition. Prentice Hall, 1988.

References (All on reserve in Snell library):

David A. Patterson and John L. Hennessy. Computer Architecture: a quantitative approach. Second edition. Morgan-Kaufmann, c1996.
Gerrit Blaauw and Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Computer Architecture: concepts and evolution. Addison-Wesley, c1997.
Mark D. Hill, Norman P. Jouppi, and Gurindar S. Sohi. Readings in Computer Architecture. Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.

History:

Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray. Computer: a history of the information machine. Basic Books, 1996.
Tracy Kidder. The Soul of a New Machine.Little-Brown, 1981.
Maurice Wilkes. Memoirs of a computer pioneer. MIT Press, 1985.
Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazere. Out of Their Minds: the lives and discoveries of 15 great computer scientists. Copernicus, c1995.

The MIPS family of chips:

Hardware Design:

Niklaus Wirth. Digital Circuit Design for Computer Science Students. Springer, c1995.
Randy Katz. Contemporary Logic Design. Benjamin/Cummings, 1994.
Franklin Prosser and David Winkel. The Art of Digital Design: an introduction to top-down design.
John Wakerly. Digital Design: principles and practices. Second edition. Prentice-Hall, 1994.
Edward McCluskey. Logic Design Principles: with emphasis on testable semicustom circuits. Prentice-Hall, 1986.
Stephen Ward. Computation Structures. McGraw-Hill, 1990.
Systems Design:
David Culler and Jaswinder Pal Singh, with Anoop Gupta. Parallel Computer Architecture: a hardware/software approach. Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.