Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC)
This tutorial entails going through references on
RISC including (but not necessarily limited to) the following, and understanding
important concepts.
Reference Material
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W. Stallings. Computer Organization
and Architecture. Macmillan OPublishing Company, 1986.
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D.
A. Patterson. Reduced Instruction Set Computers. Communications
of the ACM, vol. 28, no. 1, January 1985, pp. 8-21.
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K. Hwang. Advanced Computer Architecture:
Parallel ism, Scalability, Programmability. McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993.
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D.
A. Patterson, J. L. Hennessy. Computer Organization and Design: The
Hardware/Software Interface, Second Edition.
Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, 1997.
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J.
L. Hennessy, D. A. Patterson. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative
Approach, Second Edition.
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 1995..
The above list is (obviously!) not exhaustive.
Other reference material may be announced in the class. The Web has a vast
storehouse of related tutorial material.
Sumantra
Dutta Roy Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, Powai,
Mumbai - 400 076, INDIA. sumantra@ee.iitb.ac.in