This repository contains curriculum materials for a computer architecture class based on the Hennessy & Patterson textbook entitled “Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach” and extended to the POWER instruction set architecture (ISA). POWER is an acronym for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC.
The structure of the repository is noted below.
• Lecture Slides
o Chapter 1: Introduction
o Chapter 2: Memory Hierarchy
o Chapter 3: Instruction-Level Parallelism
o Chapter 4: Data-Level Parallelism
o Chapter 5: Thread-Level Parallelism
• Resources
o GEM5 for POWER
o Microwatt for POWER
o Forums
* GEM5
* Microwatt
o Tutorials
* GEM5
* Microwatt
• Exercises
Link to other resouces: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1T-pyd9pYG8Hl6lJxHZsKQTKRd2nOP5cZ
Link to the Open Power Foundation compute Hubs where compute resources are available for classroom use: https://openpowerfoundation.org/hub/