WCAE 2007: San Diego, California, USA

Edward F. Gehringer (Ed.): Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Computer Architecture Education, WCAE 2007, San Diego, California, USA, Saturday, June 9, 2007. ACM 2007, ISBN 978-1-59593-797-1

Simulation and animation

David A. Poplawski:
A pedagogically targeted logic design and simulation tool. 1-7
Milos Becvár, Stanislav Kahánek:
VLIW-DLX simulator for educational purposes. 8-13
Sandro Neves Soares, Flávio Rech Wagner:
From classroom to research: providing different services for computer architecture education. 14-22
Mohit Gambhir, Edward F. Gehringer, Yan Solihin:
Animations of important concepts in parallel computer architecture. 23-29
Leticia Pascual, Alejandro Torrentí, Julio Sahuquillo, Jose Flich:
Understanding cache hierarchy interactions with a program-driven simulator. 30-35

Featured talk

Umakishore Ramachandran, William D. Leahy Jr.:
An integrated approach to teaching computer systems architecture. 38-43

Laboratories

Dennis Brylow:
An experimental laboratory environment for teaching embedded hardware systems. 44-51
Alicia Asín Pérez, Darío Suárez Gracia, Víctor Viñals Yúfera:
A proposal to introduce power and energy notions in computer architecture laboratories. 52-57
Guillermo Payá Vayá, Thomas Jambor, Konstantin Septinus, Sebastian Hesselbarth, Holger Flatt, Marc Freisfeld, Peter Pirsch:
ChipDesign: from theory to real world. 58-64

Special session

Shrenik Mehta, Dwayne Lee:
Industry perspective on chip multi-threading, bridging the gap with academia using OpenSPARC. 65

Building a computer

Timothy Daryl Stanley, George Embrey, Daniel Prigmore, Leslie D. Fife, Scott Mikolyski, Don Colton:
Pedagogic value in understanding computer architecture of implementing the marie computer from null and lobur in the logic emulation software, multimedia logic. 66-71
Timothy Urness:
Teaching computer organization/architecture by building a computer. 72-76