This note covers the following topics: Basics of computer
architecture, Introduction to Digital Electronics, Binary Numbers, Boolean
Algebra, Combinational Logic Circuits, Sequential Logic Circuits, Von Neumann
Architecture, Optimizing Hardware Performance, Low-level programming,
Programming in C, Character encodings, Assembly programming.
Author(s): Philipp Hafliger, Dag Langmyhr
and Omid Mirmotahari
Computer Architecture studies the techniques used to design and implement the principle components of a computer system and the mechanisms that can be used to quantitatively evaluate the expected performance capabilities of the different design possibilities. This page covers the following topics related to Computer Architecture, Introduction, Historical Overview, Fundamentals of Computer Design, Optimizations of the Memory Hierarchy,Instruction Level Parallelism, Data Parallelism, ThreadLevel Parallelism, Warehouse Computing, Domain Specific Architecture.
This note covers the following topics, Fundamentals of Computer Design, Basic Organization of a Computer, Instruction Set Design, Addressing Modes, CPU Implementation, Interrupts, The Memory Hierarchy, Virtual Memory.