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The Cray Files | Modular Circuits edit / delete

Emulating the Cray XMP. Most impressive. Sounds like it'd be a fun machine to program for -- these days the thing it resembles most is a GPU architecture like the VideoCore...

to architecture cray retrocomputing supercomputing ... on 06 May 2013

VideoCore IV Programmers Manual · hermanhermitage/videocoreiv Wiki edit / delete

Reverse-engineering the instruction set for the Raspberry Pi's GPU. I'm starting to think this might be my final 0700 or 0803 lecture this year...

to architecture gpu raspberry-pi reverse-engineering teaching ... on 05 March 2013

The Elements of Computing Systems / Nisan & Schocken edit / delete

Companion site.

to ag0700 architecture cs teaching ... on 25 November 2012

Lingua Francas for Design..., by Thomas Erickson edit / delete

to architecture patterns ... on 19 May 2012

The J1 Forth CPU — excamera edit / delete

Forth CPU in an FPGA.

to architecture cpu forth fpga ... on 26 March 2012

Stack Computers: the new wave -- an on-line book edit / delete

A late-80s overview of stack-based processors.

to architecture cpu forth stack transputer ... on 23 March 2012

x32-abi edit / delete

32-bit ABI for AMD64 processors. Good idea.

to amd64 architecture binary x32 x86 ... on 29 September 2011

Bellrock.org.uk : Welcome edit / delete

The lighthouse near Arbroath. Good articles about how it was built.

to architecture building dundee history lighthouse retrotech ship ... on 30 January 2011

R-trees v6.pptx - Windows Live edit / delete

Using R-trees, with a view to efficient memory structure use on games consoles. (Eww at the link, but it does work OK in Firefox.)

to architecture data-structures games memory ... on 10 August 2010

Software optimization resources. C++ and assembly. Windows, Linux, BSD, Mac OS X edit / delete

Good stuff -- lots of information on how modern computer architectures work. (I'm upgrading my previous assessment of this site, having found it really useful while updating the CE0813 material!)

to architecture optimisation programming teaching ... on 17 March 2010