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• Syllabus (pdf)

1. Review material:
•  Introduction (pdf)
•  Other Review Material (pdf)
•  Instruction Formats & Addressing Modes (pdf)
•  8-bit Instruction Formats (pdf) 
•  Animation of an Instruction Execution (pdf)
2. Computer Systems Configurations (pdf)
3. Generic Instruction Sequence (pdf)
4.  A 16-bit processor: The Intel 8086 (pdf)
5. CPU/Processor Architecture (pdf)
6. Pipelined Processors (pdf)
7. Superscalar Processors - Intro (pdf)
   
8. Processor and System Performance (pdf)
   
9. System Interface Protocols:
1. System Interface Protocols- Intro (pdf)
2. Example of synchronous-asynchronous buses (pdf)
3. System Interface Protocols- Advanced (pdf)
4. Interfacing to Multiple Size Ports (pdf)
5. Cache Line Updating (pdf)
10. Industry Standard System Buses:
1. Introduction (pdf)
2. Examples (pdf)
11. Memory Systems:
1. Design and Interfacing (pdf)
2. Memory Interleaving and Advanced Access Modes (pdf)
3. Memory Design Methodology (pdf)
4. SDRAMs, ... and all that jazz (pdf)
   
12. Cache Memories:
1. Cache Memory #1: Introduction (pdf)
2. Cache Memory #2: Organization (pdf)
3. Cache Memory #3: Operation (pdf)
4. Cache Memory #4: Coherency (pdf)
13. MMUs and Virtual Memory:
1. Introduction (pdf)
2. Paging (pdf)
3. Segmentation (pdf)
14. Summary (pdf)
15. Conclusions (pdf)

        Other Optional Material:

• SIMMs, DIMMs, DRAMs, EDOs, etc (pdf)
• Rambus (pdf)
• VMEbus (pdf)

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