During the recent SIGCSE 2008 in Chattanooga, I received queries from a number of professors about the best place to find technical (no marketing) articles describing processor architecture at the register level.  Below are a few links that may be helpful.  Yes, there is a little bit of marketing, but scrape it away, discard in the appropriate receptacle, and I think you'll find a lot of useful information.  As always, let me know what you think and I'll do my best to add or take away material.

All the best,
Paul Steinberg
Your Academic Community Manager

Architecture sites and links

• Platform Architectural Resources. Features, specs & architectural details for Intel's processor families.
  
• Intel(R) Embedded Design Center. Resources for Intel’s newest embedded processors and chipsets including confidential documentation, training, online support and step-by-step guidance.
• Architecture & Silicon Technology
• Intel Research Home

UEFI

• Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Courseware from Intel
• UEFI.org Home

Comments (2)

May 22, 2009 12:21 AM PDT wolfmurphy Total Points: 805 Status Points: 805 Black Belt

Great list. Nothing for the discard pile. If you can add pointers to the various instruction sets architecture documents, I'll be your GFFALT (good friend for a long time), which looks like it is mnemonic for some hardware counter. ... Tom

May 22, 2009 10:10 AM PDT Paul Steinberg (Intel) Total Points: 6,454 Status Points: 6,454 Community Manager

Thanks for the comment Tom and the request. I'll do some digging. and thanks for pointing out the - ahem - typos ;-)

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