CS 473 Lecture Notes

Floating Point

• Number Base Conversions
• Motivation for Floating Point
• IEEE Standard Floating Point
• Bit-Twiddling in C

Performance and Comparative Instruction Sets

• Intro: RISC vs. CISC

Pipelining

• Hazards
• Pipeline control and hazard resolution

Midterm

Midterm Topics

Memory Hierarchy

I/O