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Instruction Set Architecture

By David Culler - Berkeley
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Lecture Description

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.

Course Index

  1. Machine Structures Course Overview
  2. Review C Control Structures, Scalar Data Types, Representaton of Integers
  3. Buffers, Buffering, Stacks, Overflows
  4. Object and Storage Management
  5. Instruction Set Architecture
  6. Numerics - Why It Matters
  7. OS Really, CRT0, Bootloader
  8. Technology, Digital Abstraction
  9. Instr Interpretation
  10. Rich Data Types
  11. Performance
  12. Parallelism
  13. Machine Structures Course Wrap-Up