The semester starting January 2012, to be known herein as (Winter 2012)'s online material

• Winter 2012 Announcements
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The semester starting September 2011, to be known herein as (Fall 2011)'s online material

• Fall 2011 Announcements
• Fall 2011 Course Outline

Previous course online material.

• Winter 2011 Announcements
• Winter 2011 Course Outline

• Winer 2010 online material (last year)
  • Winter 2010 Announcements
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• Winter 2009 online material
  • Winter 2009 Announcements
  • Winter 2009 Course Outline
• Winter 2008's online material
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  • Winter 2008 Course Outline
• Winter 2007's online material
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• Fall 2006's online material
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Sources for Computer Architecture related information on the Web

• General Computer Science Web Sites That Occasionally Cover Computer Architecture Issues
  • SlashDot ( Hardware Slashdot)
  • Hardware News at Ars Technica
  • ACM TechNews
  • ACM Queue
  • Communications of the ACM
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • Computer (IEEE)
  • IBM Technical Journals
  • EE Times
  • IEEE Annals in the History of Computing
  • IEEE Spectrum
  • Wired News and Wired Magazine
  • KurzweilAI.net
  • Wikipedia
  • Scholar Google
  • UWO Card Catalog
    • UWO library books on Computer Architecture sorted by date
    • UWO library books on Computer Design sorted by date
    • UWO library books on Computer Performance sorted by date
    • UWO library books on Digital Logic sorted by date
• Wikipedia entries of interest
  • Computer Architecture
  • Logic simulation
  • Emulator
  • Field-programmable gate array
  • system-on-a-chip
  • microcontroller
  • Open source hardware
  • Integrated Circuit Design
  • Digital electronics
  • Combinational logic
  • Boolean Algebra
  • truth table
  • disjunctive normal form
  • logic gate
  • netlist
  • relay
  • ternary logic
  • circuit design
  • circuit diagram
  • software testing
  • design for test
  • automatic test pattern generation
  • fault models
  • fault coverage
  • bebugging
  • regression testing
  • decoder
  • encoder
  • multiplexer
  • barrel shifter
  • parity bit
  • computer numbering formats
  • signed number representations
  • 2's complement
  • adder
  • multiplication ALU
  • binary multiplier
  • Sequential Logic
  • latch
  • race condition
  • hazard
  • clock signal
  • flip flop
  • metastability
  • shift registers
  • static ram
  • dynamic random access memory
  • finite state machine
  • Mealy machine
  • CPU
  • processor register
  • control unit
  • ALU
  • CPU design
  • instruction set
  • microarchitecture
  • interrupt
  • interrupt handler
  • magnetic tape data storage
  • optimization
  • performance analysis
  • dynamic program analysis
  • performance predication
  • Java preformance
  • benchmarks
  • hard disk drive
  • external sorting
  • virtual memory
  • flash memory
  • register allocation
  • cache
  • cache algorithms
  • CPU cache
  • cache oblivious algorithm
  • cache coherency
  • memory hierarchy
  • locality of reference
  • complex instruction set computer
  • reduced instruction set computer
  • instruction pipeline
  • superscalar
  • out of order execution
  • VLIW
  • SIMD
  • multithreading
  • multi-core computing
  • shared memory
  • Compare and swap
  • lock-free and wait-free algorithms
  • parallel computing
  • MIMD
  • Distributed memory
  • Amdahl's Law
  • Gustafson's Law
  • Karp-Flatt metric
  • Moore's Law
  • Wirth's Law
  • Bell's Law
  • Kryder's Law
  • Rock's Law
  • Timeline of computing
• Computer Architecture Specific Web Sites
  • ACM SIGARCH (Special Interest Group on Computer Architecuture) -- newsletter and sponsored conferences
  • comp.arch
  • comp.arch.fpga
  • comp.parallel
  • comp.programming.threads
  • comp.sys.super
  • sci.nanotech
  • sci.electronics
  • sci.electronics.cad
  • Top 500 Supercomputer Sites (twice a year updated list)
  • Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (Spec Benchmarks)
  • Hot Chips Archives (A Symposium on High Performance Chips)
  • ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems
  • Dwayne Lee at Sun Blog (see also OpenSparc initiative)
  • Reconfigurable Computing Blog
  • Modern Technology Blog
  • Thinking Parallel Blog
  • not so random musings and mutterings about high performance computing blog
  • Go Parallel (Intel sponsored site on concurrent and parallel programming)
  • ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
  • ACM Transactions on Storage
  • ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
  • ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
  • ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation
  • ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems
  • ISMM: International Symposium on Memory Management
  • HWWS: SIGGRAPH/EUROGRAPHICS Workshop On Graphics Hardware
  • SIGDA ACM Special Interest Group in Design Automation (newsletter and associated conferences)
  • SIGBED ACM Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems (newsletter and associated conferences)
  • SIGMETRICS ACM Special Interest Group on Measurement and Evaluation (newsletter and associated conferences)
  • SIGMICRO ACM Special Interest Group on Microarchitectural Research and Processing (newsletter and associated conferences)
  • SIGSIM ACM Special Interest Group on Simulation and Modeling (newsletter and associated conferences)
  • WWW Computer Architecture Page
  • Intel Technology and Research
  • AMD Developer Central
  • IEEE Micro
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • IEEE Computer Architecture Letters
  • IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine
  • IEEE Design and Test of Computers
  • IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
  • FPGA and Structured ASIC Journal
  • IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
  • Supercomputing Online
  • Embedded System Design
  • DSP Design
  • AMDzone
  • WikiBook on Computer Hardware
  • Distributed Systems -- Architecture and Implementation (An Advanced Course)
  • Logic Design (by Wei-Kei Chen, CRC Press, 2003, online book, PDF file with links to other PDF files)
  • Computer Organization and Design Fundamentals by David L. Tarnoff
  • Designing and Building Parallel Programs by Ian Foster
  • How Computers Work: Processor and Main Memory by Roger Stephen Young
  • The Elements of Cache Programming Style by Chris B. Sears (at Google)
  • Performance Programming: Theory, Practice and Case Study -- A tutorial by Rajat Garg, Ilya Sharapov and Alistair Rendell presented at SC2002
• papers of note
  • The locality principle Peter J. Denning, 2005 (ACM)
  • Implementation of precise interrupts in pipelined processors James E. Smith and Andrew R. Pleszkun, 1983 (ACM)
  • When will computer hardware match the human brain? by Hans Moravec
  • Which Machines Do Computer Architects Admire?

I can be contacted by email at webber@csd.uwo.ca in the manner described in the course outline.