Mario Côrtes - MO401 - IC/Unicamp- 2002s1 Ch1/ Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Where we are headed Performance issues (Chapter 2) vocabulary and motivation A specific instruction set architecture (Chapter 3) Arithmetic and how to build an ALU (Chapter 4) Constructing a processor to execute our instructions (Chapter 5) Pipelining to improve performance (Chapter 6) Memory: caches and virtual memory (Chapter 7) I/O (Chapter 8) Key to a good grade: reading the book!
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