| Chapter | Core Topic | What the PPT Animates | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | 1 | Basic Concepts & Computer Evolution | Evolution from ENIAC to modern multi-core | | 2 | Performance Issues | Clock cycles, CPI, Amdahl’s Law charts | | 3 | A Top-Level View of Computer Function | Instruction fetch/execute cycle animation | | 4 | Cache Memory | Direct, associative, and set-associative mapping | | 5 | Internal Memory | DRAM vs. SRAM, ECC, interleaving | | 6 | External Memory | RAID levels (0-6) visualized | | 7 | I/O Systems | Programmed, interrupt-driven, DMA | | 8 | Operating System Support | Scheduling, memory management, virtual memory | | 9 | Number Systems | Floating-point IEEE 754 deep dive | | 10 | Computer Arithmetic | ALU design, carry look-ahead adder | | 11 | Instruction Sets (Addressing Modes) | Modes: immediate, direct, indirect, indexed | | 12 | Instruction Sets (Structure) | CISC vs. RISC comparison | | 13 | Pipelining | 5-stage pipeline hazards & forwarding | | 14 | Instruction-Level Parallelism | Superscalar, VLIW, out-of-order execution | | 17 | Parallel Processing | Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), clusters |
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