Welcome to the wiki for Digital Design and Computer Architecture for Spring 2025
The class provides a first introduction to the design of digital circuits and computer architecture. It covers technical foundations of how a computing platform is designed from the bottom up. It introduces various execution paradigms, hardware description languages, and principles in digital design and computer architecture. The focus is on fundamental techniques employed in the design of modern microprocessors and their hardware/software interface.
This class provides a first approach to Computer Architecture. The students learn the design of digital circuits in order to:
understand the basics,
understand the principles (of design),
understand the precedents (in computer architecture).
Based on such understanding, the students are expected to:
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