ECE 3055 Computer Architecture and Operating Systems
J. Hamblen

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Full die photograph of the MIPS R2000 RISC Microprocessor. 

The 1986 MIPS R2000 with five pipeline stages and 450,000 transistors was the world’s first commercial RISC microprocessor.

Photograph ©1995-2004 courtesy of Michael Davidson, Florida State University, http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/chipshots.


Course materials (after class extra copies left with lab TAs)

Software & Related links

 

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New 16 core AMD Opteron 6200 processor

Figures & Slides from Computer Organization & Design by Patterson and Hennessy 4th Edition

 

Figures & Slides from Operating Systems Concepts by Silberschatz & Galvin 8th Edition

 

A Student VHDL-based timing simulation of the MIPS Processor running in the Free Altera Quartus II FPGA CAD tool.