Website: https://safari.ethz.ch/ddca/spring2026/doku.php
TA-Site: https://durrant.ch/
Note: most of this is copied from cs.shivi.io for convenience.
Notes
- 1. Introduction - Fundamentals, Transistors, Gates
- 2. Combinational Logic
- 3. Sequential Logic
- 4. Finite State Machines
- 5. Timing
- 6. Computing System - Architecture and Operation
- 9. ISA vs Microarchitecture
- 15. Out-Of-Order Execution
- 16. Superscalar Execution
- 17. Branch Prediction
- 18 VLIW Architectures
- 19. Systolic Arrays
- 20. SIMD Architectures
- 21. GPU Architectures
- 22. Memory
- 23. Caching
- 24. Prefetching
- 25. Virtual Memory
Optional HWs
Do the Optional HWs → they are actually good for the exam, the lecture is kind-off bonus material.
https://safari.ethz.ch/ddca/spring2025/doku.php?id=homeworks
My notes on the OHWs can be found here: Optional HWs.
Exercises
The Exercises are called Labs and are done in pairs. The necessary documents are available here: https://safari.ethz.ch/ddca/spring2026/doku.php?id=labs.
The deadline for each lab (in-class evaluation) is the next lab session. At the beginning of the next lab session, you should ask a TA to review your lab.
My Lab is on tuesdays from 16:15-18:00.
Extra Credit
You can read and summarise lectures for 1% extra credit: https://safari.ethz.ch/ddca/spring2026/doku.php?id=assignments.