Introduction to Computer Architecture

Teaching methods

The material will be taught through traditional lectures, backed up by unassessed formative exercises and assessed courseworks designed to reinforce the material as it is taught.

The Piazza Q&A web service will be used as an open online discussion forum for the module.

Reading list

Core

• Computer Organization and Design : The Hardware/Software Interface

  Morgan Kaufmann

• Computer organization and design the hardware/software interface

  Patterson, David A.

  5th, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers

• Computer systems : a programmer's perspective / Randal E. Bryant, David R. O'Hallaron.

  Bryant, Randal E.,

  Third edition, Global edition., Pearson

Module leaders

Professor Wayne Luk
Dr Maria Valera-Espina