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Re:Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019 by williamDafoe on Monday November 25, 2019 @11:22PM (#21635625)
As someone who taught this at a top 10 university, it doesn't look to me like a very good course. I feel like you should have all the basics to design a CPU by the end of the course and this course fails completely to teach the Breadth necessary for CPU design
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Re:Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019 by crashocaster on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @01:27AM (#21645750)
His prerequisite first year course [0] actually matches your description more, and even has students designing their own CPUs on FPGAs. I feel like this course goes more in the direction of his own research interest, and already assumes the basic "breath" you speak of.

[0] https://safari.ethz.ch/digitaltechnik/spring2019/doku.php?id...

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Re:Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019 by passwert on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @06:23AM (#21637334)
I'm curious, do you mind explaining, what a top 10 university is (e.g. ranked by students, number of published papers etc.)? FYI, the ETH is also considered as a top 10 university (top 6 actually according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QS_World_University_Rankings)
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Re:Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019 by krn on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @11:49AM (#21639992)
> I'm curious, do you mind explaining, what a top 10 university is (e.g. ranked by students, number of published papers etc.)?

If the comment was made by a professor in the U.S., it could have meant "top 10 <in the field> in North America".

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