1. Computers: Technology trends, design ideas, performance benchmarking.
2. Instruction set architecture; overview of MIPS instruction set; alternative ISAs.
3. Arithmetic for Computers: ALU Design, Floating Point operations
4. The Processor: Datapath, Control, Pipelining, Hazards, Exceptions, Parallelism
5. Memory: Technology, Cache Hierarchies, Cache Coherency, Memory Hierarchy, Virtual Memory.
6. Parallelism: Vector Operations, Multithreading, Multiprocessors, GPUs, Grid Computing