Why and What is this course?
What is a computer?
Below your program
Under the Covers
Digital Binary Systems
Performance
The Power Wall
The Switch from Uniprocessors to Multiprocessors

Operations and Operands of the Computer Hardware
Signed and Unsigned Numbers
Representing Instructions in the Computer
Logical Operations
Instructions for Making Decisions
Supporting Procedures in Computer Hardware
Communicating with People
MIPS Addressing for 32-Bit Immediates and Addresses
Translating and Starting a Program
Arrays versus Pointers

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Addition and Subtraction
Gate Logic and K-Map Method
Constructing a Basic Arithmetic Logic Unit
Multiplication and Division
Floating Point

Logic Design Conventions
Building a Datapath
A Simple Implementation Scheme
An Overview of Pipelining
Pipelined Datapath and Control
Data Hazards: Forwarding versus Stalling
Control Hazards
Exceptions

The Basic of Caches
Measuring and Improving Cache Performance
Virtual Memory
A Common Framework for Memory Hierarchies

Dependability, Reliability, and Availability
Disk and Flash Storages
Connecting Processors, Memory, and I/O Devices
Interfacing I/O Devices to the Processors, Memory, and Operating System
I/O Performance Measures
Design an I/O System
Parallelism and I/O: Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks

Parallel Processing Programs
Graphics Processing Units
Multiprocessor Network Topologies