Library

CPU Architecture and Microarchitecture

• Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, David Patterson and John Hennessy
  • The main book for this course. It contains all that you need to know about the computer architecture and MIPS ISA.
  • English, 3rd Edition (MIPT Library)
  • Russian, 4th Edition (MIPT Library)
• Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, John Hennessy and David Patterson
  • The classic book about state-of-the-art high-performance computing microarchitectures.
  • English, 4th Edition (MIPT Library)

Digital Circuits

• Digital Design and Computer Architecture, David Harris and Sarah Harris
  • The best book for beginners about digital design, covers basics of computer architecture as well.
  • Russian, 2nd Edition (free on MIPS website)
  • NB The 3rd edition of the book is less informative than the 2nd one.
• Basics of Digital Circuits, Anatoly Larin
  • Lectures for DREC 3rd grade students by MIPT
  • Covers most of the digital circuits basics.
  • Russian (MIPT Library)

Git

• Pro Git
  • Free and very detailed document about Git.
  • English, 2nd edition
  • Russian, 2nd edition
• Git Flight Rules
  • Good explanation what to do when things go wrong.
  • English
  • Russian
• git-magic
  • Provides you more details about Git.

Programming

• Teach Yourself C++, Herbert Schildt
  • The best to study C++ to participate in the project
  • MIPT Library: Russian, 3rd edition
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (mostly known as Gang of Four)
  • MIPT Library: Russian

Performance Simulation

• Asim: A Performance Model Framework (Eng) is a paper about framework for CPU performance modeling, including features that we're reusing for MIPT-MIPS simulator.

MIPS

• MIPS Instruction Reference — the detailed list of MIPS instructions.
• MIPS Instruction Converter — the good tool investigate MIPS instruction encoding.
• MARS Syscalls Funstions — system calls that are implemented in MARS MIPS simulator and we re-use