Machine Structures

Course Description

The internal organization and operation of digital computers. Machine architecture, support for high-level languages (logic, arithmetic, instruction sequencing) and operating systems (I/O, interrupts, memory management, process switching). Elements of computer logic design. Tradeoffs involved in fundamental architectural design decisions.

Lectures

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   Lecture 1 - Machine Structures Course Overview

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   Lecture 2 - Review C Control Structures, Scalar Data Types, Representaton of Integers

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   Lecture 3 - Buffers, Buffering, Stacks, Overflows

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   Lecture 4 - Object and Storage Management

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   Lecture 5 - Instruction Set Architecture

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   Lecture 6 - Numerics - Why It Matters

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   Lecture 7 - OS Really, CRT0, Bootloader

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   Lecture 8 - Technology, Digital Abstraction

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   Lecture 9 - Instr Interpretation

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    Lecture 10 - Rich Data Types

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    Lecture 11 - Performance

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    Lecture 12 - Parallelism

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    Lecture 13 - Machine Structures Course Wrap-Up