The course logo, presented full-size below, is a montage of architectural diagrams. Since the AMD Athlon and Intel Pentium III were the most commonly available high-end processors in 2000 when Dietz took over this course, the logo combines diagrams from both. It could be switched to newer processor diagrams, but there is more detail visible in these older, simpler, diagrams, so we're keeping them for now....
Note that this logo is a good indication of how this course differs with the approach to this material elsewhere. In our course, the goal is not only to give a basic introduction to the concepts using a simplified MIPS architecture, but also to enable students to make intelligent evaluations of state-of-the-art processors. In your careers, many of you will never need to design your own processor, but all of you are likely to need to evaluate and specify processors.
Computer Organization and Design.