• Review: Multilevel Computers
  • The Digital Logic Level
  • The Microarchitecture Level
  • The Instruction Set Architecture Level
  • The Operating System Level
  • The Assembly Language Level
  • Computer Families
    • x86
    • ARM
    • AVR
• Computer Systems
  • Processors
  • Primary Memory
  • Secondary Memory
  • Input/Ouput
• The Digital Logic Level: The topics on digital circuits were covered in CDA3103.
  • Gates and Boolean Algebra
  • Basic Digital Logic
  • CPU Chips and Buses
  • Example CPU Chips
  • Example Buses
  • Interfacing
• The Microarchitecture Level
  • An Example Microarchitecture
  • An Example ISA: IJVM
  • An Example Implementation
  • Design of the Microarchitecture Level
  • Improving Performance
  • Examples of the Microarchitecture Level
• Instruction Set: Most of these topics were covered in CDA3103.
  • Core i7
  • OMAP4430 ARM
  • ATmega168 AVR
• Assembly Level: Most of these topics were covered in CDA3013.
  • Linking and loading
• Parallel Computer Architectures
  • On-chip Parallelism
  • Coprocessors
  • Shared-memory Multiprocessors
  • Message-passing Multicomputers
  • Grid Computing