TOPIC                                     APPROX. # of 75 min LECTURES 


Introduction and basic Components ......................... 2.5
(Chapter 3)


Instruction set Architectures and Case Studies ............ 4
(Chapters 4 and 5)


Intro to Memory hierarchy and Virtual Memory .............. 1


Subroutine calling mechanisms ............................. 3
(Chapter 6)


Integer Representation and basic Arithmetic ............... 2
(Chapter 7)


Floating Point representations ............................ 2
(Chapter 8)


Assembling, Linking and Loading ........................... 2
(Chapter 10)


Extended Operations and Exceptions ........................ 3
(Chapter 11)


Device Communication and Interrupts ....................... 3
(Chapter 12)


Miscellaneous Topics ...................................... 2.5
(Microprogramming, Pipelining
and Cache)


What's new in Computer Architecture/ ...................... 1
Microprocessors of the near future