Bridges to computer architecture education

Authors:
Peter Marwedel;Birgit Sirocic
Affiliations:
University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany;University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
Venue:
WCAE '04 Proceedings of the 2004 workshop on Computer architecture education: held in conjunction with the 31st International Symposium on Computer Architecture
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Bridging the gap between the student's current knowledge and the technical details of computer systems is frequently required for the education of undergraduate students or students with a lack of previous technical knowledge. In this paper we will describe how to build bridges by the combination of introducing Flash-animations and the educational units of the RaVi system. In a first step the Flash-based animations make the students familiar with the underlaying principles. After that the student could jump to the more technical context by using the educational unit of RaVi. We have developed two bridges, one for explaining the principles of cache coherency protocols and the other for showing the concept of processor pipelines.