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Integrated Circuits

• From Sand to Silicon

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Processors

• 8 Great Ideas in Computer Architecture
• RISC Principles
• Computer Components
• CPU Performance
• Pipelining
• Pipelining Obstacles
• Register Renaming
• Register Renaming Form (PDF)
• Register Renaming Performance

Memory

• Caching
• Cache Addressing
• Cache Performance
• Cache Coherence

System Related Topics

• The Operating System Interface
• Loop Unrolling
• Virtual Memory
• Virtual Memory Address Translation