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
• Midterm from Fall 2001

Other Pipelines and Out-of-Order Execution

• Intel
• CDC

Memory Hierarchy

• Memory Hierarchy
• Cache
• Virtual Memory
• Cache and VM Together

I/O

• Graphics Hardware:
  Rick's first graphics lecture
  Rick's second graphics lecture
  Magicpoint source as an 11MB gzipped tar file. You'll need magicpoint to view this.
• RAID
• PCI
• USB

Final Exam