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Crucial topics in computer architecture education and a survey of textbooks and papers

Title	Crucial topics in computer architecture education and a survey of textbooks and papers
Author	Yıldız, A., Gören, S., Uğurdağ, Hasan Fatih, Aktemur, B., Akdoğan, Taylan
Publication Date:	2020
Publication Place	- International Association of Engineers
Subject	Assembly language, Computer architecture education, Computer organization education, CPU customization, FPGA, Instruction pipelining, Instruction set completeness, Instruction set design, Memory banks, Memory hierarchy, Memory-mapped I/O, Microcontroller versus microprocessor, One-instruction CPU, Self-modifying code
Type	Periodical
Language	English
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID	1819-656X
Record ID	66c0b1da-e8ce-4934-9948-b025cb43b3c4
Library Location	Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Date	2020
Notes	TüBİTAK
Sample Text	We have been teaching undergraduate computer architecture since 2012 in an unconventional way. Most undergraduate computer architecture courses are based on microprocessors, and they quickly move into advanced topics such as instruction pipelining, forwarding, branch prediction, cache, and even memory management unit. We instead spend only the last one-third of our course on these topics. The first two thirds of the course is devoted to microcontrollers, i.e., simple-minded processors with no memory hierarchy, no branch prediction, sometimes even no pipelining. Our claim is that it is very hard to truly grasp the advanced topics without full grasp of the basics. Equipped with the above approach, this article comes up with an all-inclusive list of crucial topics for computer architecture education, and it surveys 25 computer architecture textbooks as well as 38 computer architecture education papers to see how much they cover these topics. In addition to that, the article contains a concise description of the perspective of our course. One of the pillars of our course is a working CPU on FPGA. We have so far had around 600 students design their own unique CPUs using Verilog given a complete instruction set, close to 70% of them with complete success.
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Crucial topics in computer architecture education and a survey of textbooks and papers

Author Yıldız, A., Gören, S., Uğurdağ, Hasan Fatih, Aktemur, B., Akdoğan, Taylan

Publication Date 2020

Publication Place - International Association of Engineers

Subject Assembly language, Computer architecture education, Computer organization education, CPU customization, FPGA, Instruction pipelining, Instruction set completeness, Instruction set design, Memory banks, Memory hierarchy, Memory-mapped I/O, Microcontroller versus microprocessor, One-instruction CPU, Self-modifying code

Type Periodical

Language English

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Özyeğin University

Library Asset ID 1819-656X

Record ID 66c0b1da-e8ce-4934-9948-b025cb43b3c4

Library Location Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Date 2020

Notes TüBİTAK

Sample Text We have been teaching undergraduate computer architecture since 2012 in an unconventional way. Most undergraduate computer architecture courses are based on microprocessors, and they quickly move into advanced topics such as instruction pipelining, forwarding, branch prediction, cache, and even memory management unit. We instead spend only the last one-third of our course on these topics. The first two thirds of the course is devoted to microcontrollers, i.e., simple-minded processors with no memory hierarchy, no branch prediction, sometimes even no pipelining. Our claim is that it is very hard to truly grasp the advanced topics without full grasp of the basics. Equipped with the above approach, this article comes up with an all-inclusive list of crucial topics for computer architecture education, and it surveys 25 computer architecture textbooks as well as 38 computer architecture education papers to see how much they cover these topics. In addition to that, the article contains a concise description of the perspective of our course. One of the pillars of our course is a working CPU on FPGA. We have so far had around 600 students design their own unique CPUs using Verilog given a complete instruction set, close to 70% of them with complete success.

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