COD - MIPS - zyBooks

Authors

David A. Patterson University of California, Berkeley
John L. Hennessy Stanford University

Topics

Computer Abstractions and Technology
Instructions
Arithmetic for Computers
The Processor
Memory Hierarchy
Parallel Processors
Assemblers, Linkers, and the SPIM Simulator
Logic Design
Graphics and Computing GPUs
Mapping Control to Hardware
RISC Architectures

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Summary

Brings COD 5th edition to life with numerous integrated activities
Dozens of animations of concepts like pipelining / 100s of interactive learning questions
Embedded auto-generated / graded challenges like MIPS assembly programming
Homework points for student activity completion

The zyBooks Approach

Provides an introduction to the fundamentals of computer organization, emphasizing the relationship between hardware and software at various levels. Topics include assembly language, hardware, pipelining, memory hierarchies, I/O, and parallelism. Design paradigms are grounded through numerous examples with a MIPS processor.

The interactive version embeds 100s of learning questions, converts various figures and examples into dynamic animations (assembly execution, datapath operation, pipeline, etc.), and includes auto-generated auto-graded challenge activities (“homework problems”) throughout the material. As with other zyBooks, a key benefit of such interactivity is that students learn more, and come to lecture more engaged when points are given for completing the interactive activities beforehand. Auto-graded homework also gives students better feedback and frees teaching resources for higher-value interactions.

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