TOPIC                                APPROX. # of 50 min LECTURES 
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Introduction ............................................. 1


Organization of a hypothetical CPU ....................... 2


Instruction set architectures and addressing modes ....... 4


The SPARC Machine: A case study .......................... 3


Translation of hi-level language segments to assembly .... 3


Subroutine calling mechanisms ............................ 4


Intro to the memory subsystem ............................ 1


Integer representations and integer arithmetic ........... 5


Traps and Trap handlers .................................. 2


I/O, interrupts and buses ................................ 5


Intro to the memory hierarchy and virtual memory ......... 2


Cache memories ........................................... 2


Floating Point representations ........................... 3


Intro to pipelining ...................................... 2


Assemblers, Linkers and Loaders .......................... 2
















OPTIONAL TOPICS (if time permits)
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Intro to Local Area Networks 


Microprogramming


Intro to Parallel Processing


80x86 architecture and beyond (64 bit)