CPU Design HOW-TO

Al Dev (Alavoor Vasudevan)

1. Introduction

2. What is IP ?

• 2.1 Free CPU List
• 2.2 Commercial CPU List

3. CPU Museum and Silicon Zoo

• 3.1 CPU Museum
• 3.2 How Transistors work
• 3.3 How a Transistors handles information
• 3.4 Displaying binary information
• 3.5 What is a Semi-conductor?

4. CPU Design and Architecture

• 4.1 CPU Design
• 4.2 Online Textbooks on CPU Architecture
• 4.3 University Lecture notes on CPU Architecture
• 4.4 CPU Architecture
• 4.5 Usenet Newsgroups for CPU design

5. Fabrication, Manufacturing CPUs

• 5.1 Foundry Business is in Billions of dollars!!
• 5.2 Fabrication of CPU

6. Super Computer Architecture

• 6.1 Main Architectural Classes
• 6.2 SISD machines
• 6.3 SIMD machines
• 6.4 MISD machines
• 6.5 MIMD machines
• 6.6 Distributed Processing Systems
• 6.7 ccNUMA machines

7. Neural Network Processors

8. Related URLs

9. Other Formats of this Document

• 9.1 Acrobat PDF format
• 9.2 Convert Linuxdoc to Docbook format
• 9.3 Convert to MS WinHelp format
• 9.4 Reading various formats

10. Copyright