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Useful Web Sites and Documents
Computer Science Student Resource Site : Help and advice for the long-suffering, overworked student.
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SimpleScalar LLC : More recent development of SimpleScalar software is being done here. The license remains free for academic use. Site includes downloadable software and documentation.
SimpleScalar: The original home page includes downloadable software and documentation.
SMPCache : The home page includes downloadable software and documentation.
General Sites
WWW Computer Architecture Home Page : A comprehensive index to information relevant to computer architecture researchers, including architecture groups and projects, technical organizations, literature, employment, and commercial information.
CPU Database. Information on hundreds of commercial processors spanning the past 40 years. In addition, site provides a methodology to separate the effect of technology scaling from improvements on other frontiers (e.g., architecture and software), allowing the comparison of machines built in different technologies. 
Processor Emporium . Interesting and useful collection of information.
ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture . Information on SIGARCH activities and publications, good set of useful links.
Computer Architecture Resources Maintained by Ben Juliano, Associate Dean, College of Engineering, Computer Science, and Construction Management (ECC), California State University, Chico.
Chapter 1 - Basic Concepts and Computer Evolution
Intel Product Specifications provides data on all microprocessors introduced from 2009. The Intel Microprocessor Quick Reference Guide , which gives basic data on all older Intel microprocessors, going back to the 4004.
Intel Architecture Manuals . Intel's official documentation for its x86 products.
ARM Home Page . Information on the ARM processor family.
AMD Developer Central A key competitor to Intel with a variety of processor offerings.Website includes developer guides and manuals .
CPU World Information and photos of a wide range of modern and vintage processors, plus recent processor news.
A Crash Course in Modern Hardware Video with Slides. A presentation focusing on instruction level parallelism.
IEEE History Center—Computer and Electronics Section Huge number of papers and oral histories on various aspect of computer history.
Charles Babbage Institute. Provides links to a number of web sites dealing with the history of computers.
Computer History Museum A lot of useful information and a variety of interesting exhibits.
The UK Computer Museum Another excellent online computer museum.
Photographs of Vintage Computers
Gordon Bell's CyberMuseum Gordon Bell is a seminal figure in the history of computers. This site collects many of his influential papers.
Chapter 2 - Performance Concepts
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation . SPEC is a highly recognized organization in the computer industry for its development of standardized benchmarks used to measure and compare performance of different computer systems.
Top500 Supercomputer Site. Interesting survey material on supercomputers.
Chapter 3 - Computer Function and Interconnection
PCI Special Interest Group Information about PCI specifications and products.
Chapter 6 - Internal Memory
International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors Excellent set of tables documenting current semiconductor memory technology and projected trends.
Tom's Hardware Guide Covers RAM and numerous other topics.
Rambus Good source of information on RDRAM and DDR DRAM.
Chapter 7 - External Memory
Optical Storage Technology Association Good source of information about optical storage technology and vendors, plus extensive list of relevant links.
LTO Program : Linear Tape Open has become the dominant magnetic tape storage technology. This site provides information about LTO technology and licensed vendors.
Chapter 8 - Input/Output
T10 Home Page . T10 is a Technical Committee of the National Committee on Information Technology Standards and is responsible for lower-level interfaces. Its principal work is the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI). There are also links to related Web sites.
Infiniband Trade Association . Includes technical information and vendor pointers.
1394 Trade Association. Includes technical information and vendor pointers on firewire.
Thunderbolt Technology Community Includes technical information and vendor pointers on Thunderbolt.
Chapter 9 - Operating Systems
ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems . Information on SIGOPS publications and conferences.
Operating Systems at the Open Directory Project A massive organized directory of OS-related links.
Operating System Technical Comparison Includes a substantial amount of information on a variety of operating systems. 
Chapter 11 - Computer Arithmetic
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic A classic Computing Surveys paper.
Elementary Computer Mathematics A basic survey. Includes Java-generated problems with solutions.
Computer Arithmetic Tragedies Discussion of disasters caused by computer numerical errors.
Chapter 12 - Digital Logic
Digital Logic Home Page Diagrams of circuits.
Chapter 13 - Instruction Sets
Gavin's Guide to 80x86 Assembly A good, concise overview of x86 assembler language.
The Art of Assembly Language Programming. A 1500-page on-line mega-book on the subject. Should be enough for any student of the subject.
Assembly Language Introduction Lot of useful links. 
Chapter 21 - Multicore
Multicore Association . Vendor organization promoting the development of and use of multicore technology.
Berkeley Parallel Computer Lab One of the best sites to start looking for references pertaining to anything in parallel software, multicore applications, etc.