Provides an overview of computer architecture, focusing on the von Neumann architecture and its components, including the CPU and memory management units.
Explores parallelism in programming, emphasizing trade-offs between programmability and performance, and introduces shared memory parallel programming using OpenMP.
Covers the organization and management of page tables in computer systems, focusing on their structure, challenges, and the advantages of multi-level page tables.
Covers the components of a processor, ISA classifications, specific ISAs like MIPS, assembly language examples, and the importance of machine instruction regularity.