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1. Course Introduction; The Level of Computer Structure; Architecture and Organization
2. Introduction to Digital Logic
3. Sequential Circuits
4. Representing Information in Binary
5. Error Detecting and Correcting Codes li>Introduction to the MIPS Architecture and Assembly Language
6. Control Structures
7. Procedures
8. Exceptions and Interrupts
9. Other CPU Architectures
10. CPU Implementation; the Register Transfer Level
11. Control Unit Implementation: Hardwired Control and Microprogramming
12. Pipelining and Superscalar Architectures
13. Memory Devices
14. Memory Hierarchies
15. Input-Output Devices and Interfacing
16. Parallelism
17. Performance Evaluation