CS 473 Lecture Notes

Introduction

Floating Point

• Motivation for Floating Point Numbers
• Floating Point
• Bit-Twiddling in C

Pipelining

• MIPS Instruction Set
• Pipelining I
• Pipeline Control
• Hazards
• MIPS Branching
• Intel Pipelining
• Superscalar Processing
• CDC 6600

Midterm Topics

Memory Hierarchy

• Introduction to the Memory Hierarchy
• Cache
• Virtual Memory
• Inverted Page Tables

I/O

• Input/Output
• Interrupts
• PCI
• USB
• Dallas Semiconductor MicroLAN
• Error Detection and and Correction
• RAID
• Rick Vinyard's Graphics Lecture
  • As HTML, Part 1
  • As HTML, Part
  • Gzipped tarball with original Magicpoint presentation

Final Exam Topics