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This year's Computer Architecture Education workshop is remarkable in its recognition that to teach computer architecture well, one has to pay attention to two things (a) teaching and (b) computer architecture. Having been doing both for a good number ...

The Intel® Itanium® architecture is increasingly becoming one of the major processor architectures present in the market today. Launched in 2001, the Intel Itanium processor was followed in 2002 by the Itanium 2 processor, with increased integer and ...

A simple 16-bit processor core called DOP and its teaching environment is presented. The DOP processor illustrates the basic principles of computer organization and is therefore used in the introductory hardware course. Its major features are simplicity,...

This paper describes a processor design project intended to illustrate the detail inner workings of modern superscalar out-of-order processors. In the project, the students implement a cycle-accurate RTL-level model of an out-of-order core--including ...

This paper presents the contents of a Special Topics Class used to introduce undergraduate students to the different approach to learning and thinking found in the graduate level Computer Systems environment. During the first half of the semester, the ...

Most computer science and engineering programs have two or more required computer architecture courses but lack suitable interfacing laboratory experience for other upper-level classes. Information assurance and network security tracks have been ...

When instructors learn about participatory learning strategies such as cooperative, active, problem-based, or team-based learning, often the reaction is something along the lines of "sounds great but it would not work in my class--with such an approach ...

Electronic peer review is a concept that allows students to get much more feedback on their work than they normally do in a classroom setting. Students submit assignments to the system, which presents them to other students for review. Reviewer and ...

Computer Science and Computer Engineering programs typically converge on the Dynamic-Static Interface (DSI) from opposite directions. Computer Science (CS) introduces students to system architecture and organization so they can have a better ...

In this paper we discuss our experiences using a Tablet PC-based presentation system in an undergraduate computer architecture class. The system allowed us to integrate PowerPoint slides with high quality pen-based writing and to separate the instructor'...

This paper describes how the Liberty Simulation Environment (LSE) and its graphical visualizer can be used in a computer architecture course. LSE allows for the rapid construction of simulators from models that resemble the structure of hardware. By ...

Understanding modern processors requires a good knowledge of the dynamic behavior of processors. Traditional media like books use text for describing the dynamic behavior of processors. Visualization of this behavior, however, is impossible, due to the ...

In our university, we are developing a project about Reconfigurable Network Processors (RNP). There are four important results: Reconfigurable CISC Network Processor (RCNP) architecture, Reconfigurable RISC Network Processor (R2NP) architecture, Network ...

The introduction of reconfigurable logic devices as teaching-aids, into undergraduate and graduate education, enables the students to conduct experiments they could otherwise not perform. Furthermore, this approach gives instructors the freedom to ...

A modern treatment of an introductory course on the design of logic circuits should include an early introduction of a hardware description language (HDL). This can done without sacrificing the emphasis on fundamental concepts of logic circuit design. ...