Where we are headed
Performance issues (Chapter 2) vocabulary and motivation
A specific instruction set architecture (Chapter 3)
Arithmetic and how to build an ALU (Chapter 4)
Constructing a processor to execute our instructions (Chapter 5)
Pipelining to improve performance (Chapter 6)
Memory: caches and virtual memory (Chapter 7)
I/O (Chapter 8)Key to a good grade: reading the book!