These notes accompany the Patterson and Hennessy text closely. Read the assigned sections of the text prior to the notes.

Online notes will only be available for Modules 1-8 this semester. The remainder of the class will rely solely on the course text and the presentation in lecture.

1. Background, history and performance measurement
2. Number representation and machine basics
   
3. The Simple Machine
4. MIPS I - basics, bit instructions and instruction encoding
5. MIPS II - decisions
6. MIPS III - data areas and introduction to procedures
   
7. MIPS IV - procedures and the calling convention
8. MIPS V - pointers
9. The exception handler and the compilation system
   
10. Advanced Topics I - Caches and Virtual Memory
    
11. Combinational Logic I
12. Combinational Logic II
13. Sequential Logic
14. Advanced Topics II - Floating-point and Pipelining
    

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