What would you say are the prerequisites for this course? It looks interesting but I've never taken a Comp Arch course myself and worry I'll be too far out of depth.
Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019
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Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019
#22What would you say are the prerequisites for this course? It looks interesting but I've never taken a Comp Arch course myself and worry I'll be too far out of depth.
Give it a try. The lectures I looked at don't look like they require much more than being able to read basic assembly language, and some of them probably don't even need that.
The GPU lecture is particularly good and doesn't seem to require much more than basic programming knowledge.
Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019
#23Wow, very DRAM centric view of computer architecture. Where is Tomasulo algorithm, for example.. Not as much about caches that I would expect..
Maybe there are other courses for this stuff.
Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019
#24From the lecture titles it seems to be almost entirely about memory. Is this a subset of their comparch course? If so, where’s the rest of it?
Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Works great for music as well...allegedly. Some genres are very popular on YouTube but not elsewhere (relatively), New Retro Wave been an example that comes to mind, good programming music.
It also works for Facebook (!), though FB keeps changing the API / keys so make sure to keep an updated youtube-dl.
> It also works for Facebook (!)
People often assume that youtube-dl only works with YouTube because of the name, but it actually works with a really huge amount of sites, including Vimeo and Twitch.
You can see the full list of extractors that they have in the source here:
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_d...
Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019
#26Wow, very DRAM centric view of computer architecture. Where is Tomasulo algorithm, for example.. Not as much about caches that I would expect.. Maybe there are other courses for this stuff.
There's a lecture on Out-of-Order execution [1] in the Design of Digital Circuits course [2].
[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ALyN0-jBrw
[2] https://safari.ethz.ch/digitaltechnik/spring2019/doku.php?id...
Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019
#27Wow, very DRAM centric view of computer architecture. Where is Tomasulo algorithm, for example.. Not as much about caches that I would expect.. Maybe there are other courses for this stuff.
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Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019
#28From the lecture titles it seems to be almost entirely about memory. Is this a subset of their comparch course? If so, where’s the rest of it?
Much of the CompArch topics are covered in his first year course:
https://safari.ethz.ch/digitaltechnik/spring2019/doku.php?id...
Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Works great for music as well...allegedly. Some genres are very popular on YouTube but not elsewhere (relatively), New Retro Wave been an example that comes to mind, good programming music.
It also works for Facebook (!), though FB keeps changing the API / keys so make sure to keep an updated youtube-dl.
youtube also breaks on youtube-dl, every few months. Fortunately it becomes very obvious when a breaking change has occurred.
Re: Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019
#30I've been following Onur's Design of Digital Circuits. I even bought a Basys 3 FPGA to do the labs. It's really helped me break down the black box that is the CPU I program as a software dev (I finally understand Spectre and Meltdown), and I'm learning basic FPGA dev as a nice bonus.
Where did you find the lab material?