CS 473 Final Exam Topics

Summary: everything we've done this semester

1. Floating Point Numbers
2. CPU
   1. Pipeline Basics
   2. Hazards and Hazard Resolution
   3. Branches and Branch Prediction
   4. Pipeline Variations
   5. Out-of-Order Execution (CDC)
   6. no specifically Intel or Itanium stuff
3. Memory Hierarchy
   1. Cache
   2. Virtual Memory (especially Intel)
   3. TLB
   4. No SDRAM or Inverted Page Table
4. IO
   1. Interrupts and DMA (lightly)
   2. PCI
   3. Simple Throughput Models
   4. No USB, MicroLAN, or RAID