https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1189286
The people that invented RISC, SPARC and MIPS namely, wrote some books teaching computer architecture that had a large effect on academia, industry, etc. This course is based on their advanced work. You get the information for free. It's in PDF form for easy reading. Great to get stuff for free that some people paid a lot of money to learn, eh?
Useful too. One just confirmed an idea my past year of HW research had about 180nm being sweet spot for open-source HW efforts: Pentium 4 was done on it albeit full-custom and with Intel level of expertise. Should be able to do plenty at that node in 2015 with application-specific designs. The 130 node required physical verification tied to synthesis but 180-350 might work with Qflow synthesis. Seeing what P4 achieved. I also have an upper bound on what eventual full-custom would likely achieve. I'm extra confident in my recommendation despite never having built an ASIC. Thanks Thomas. :)