Chapter 1

Datapath

Register transfer

medium • 1 min read

Micro operations

medium • 2 min read

Hardwired ctrl

medium • 3 min read

Microprogrammed

medium • 4 min read

ALU flags

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 2

Arithmetic

Booths algo

medium • 1 min read

Divider bits

medium • 2 min read

IEEE float

medium • 3 min read

Carry save

medium • 4 min read

Pipeline mult

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 3

Instruction Set

Opcode design

medium • 1 min read

Addressing modes

medium • 2 min read

Stack machine

medium • 3 min read

RISC pipelines

medium • 4 min read

Hazard logic

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 4

Memory

Cache mapping

medium • 1 min read

Virtual memory

medium • 2 min read

TLB look

medium • 3 min read

SRAM DRAM

medium • 4 min read

Page faults

medium • 5 min read

Chapter 5

Peripherals

Programmed IO

medium • 1 min read

Interrupt IO

medium • 2 min read

DMA logic

medium • 3 min read

Bus arbitration

medium • 4 min read

USB protocols

medium • 5 min read