Computer Architecture
Big Picture Series
Beginnings read
Modern computers rely on transistors, a physical building block of electronics. They employ a language of 0s and 1s. But why? Where do 0s and 1s originate? How do you get there from transistors?
Tutorial Series pdf
Amdahl's Law load
Amdahl demonstrated in a seminal work that the amount of exploitable
parallelism in workloads is a fundamental limiting factor on
performance.