# CompArch-MIPS-POWER

This repository contains curriculum materials for a computer architecture class based on the Hennessy & Patterson textbook entitled “Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach” and extended to the POWER instruction set architecture (ISA). POWER is an acronym for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC.

The structure of the repository is noted below.

•	Lecture Slides
  
  o	Chapter 1: Introduction
  
  o	Chapter 2: Memory Hierarchy
  
  o	Chapter 3: Instruction-Level Parallelism
  
  o	Chapter 4: Data-Level Parallelism 
  
  o	Chapter 5: Thread-Level Parallelism

•	Resources

  o	GEM5 for POWER
  
  o	Microwatt for POWER
  
  o	Forums
  
    	GEM5
    
    	Microwatt
    
o	Tutorials

    	GEM5
    
    	Microwatt
    
•	Exercises

