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CPU Design HOW-TO

Al Dev (Alavoor Vasudevan) alavoor[AT]yahoo.com

v12.5, 17 Feb 2002

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CPU is the "brain" of computer and is a very vital component of computer system and is like a "cousin brother" of operating system (Linux or Unix). This document helps companies, businesses, universities and research institutes to design, build and manufacture CPUs. Also the information will be useful for university students of U.S.A and Canada who are studying computer science/engineering. The document has URL links which helps students understand how a CPU is designed and manufactured. Perhaps in near future there will be a GNU/GPLed CPU running Linux, Unix, Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac and BeOS operating systems!!

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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. Linux Super Computers

• 7.1 Little Linux SuperComputer In Your Garage

8. Neural Network Processors

9. Related URLs

10. Other Formats of this Document

• 10.1 Acrobat PDF format
• 10.2 Convert Linuxdoc to Docbook format
• 10.3 Convert to MS WinHelp format
• 10.4 Reading various formats

11. Copyright

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