Abbreviations
CMOS = complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
ALU = arithmetic logic unit
OS = operating system
| LEC # | TOPICS | LECTURE NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Course overview and mechanics, basics of information | (PDF) |
| 2 | Digital abstraction, combinational logic, voltage-based encoding | (PDF) |
| 3 | CMOS technology, gate design, timing | (PDF) |
| 4 | Canonical forms; synthesis, simplification | (PDF) |
| 5 | Sequential logic | (PDF) |
| 6 | Storage elements, finite state machines | (PDF) |
| 7 | Synchronization, metastability | (PDF) |
| 8 | Pipelining; throughput and latency | (PDF) |
| 9 | Case study: multipliers | (PDF) |
| 10 | Beta instruction set architecture, compilation | (PDF) |
| 11 | Machine language programming issues | (PDF) |
| 12 | Models of computation, programmable architectures | (PDF) |
| 13 | Stacks and procedures | (PDF) |
| 14 | Non-pipelined Beta implementation | (PDF) |
| 15 | Multilevel memories; locality, performance, caches | (PDF) |
| 16 | Cache design issues | (PDF) |
| 17 | Virtual memory: mapping, protection, contexts | (PDF) |
| 18 | Virtual machines: timesharing, OS kernels, supervisor calls | (PDF) |
| 19 | Devices and interrupt handlers, preemptive interrupts, real-time issues | (PDF) |
| 20 | Communication issues: busses, networks, protocols | (PDF - 1.0MB) |
| 21 | Communicating processes: semaphores, synchronization, atomicity, deadlock | (PDF) |
| 22 | Pipelined Beta implementation, bypassing | (PDF) |
| 23 | Pipeline issues: delay slots, annulment, exceptions | (PDF) |
| 24 | Parallel processing, shared memory, cache coherence, consistency criteria | (PDF) |
| 25 | Wrapup lecture | (PDF) |