An-Najah Staff

1. Introduction
   • Basic Components of a Computer: datapath and controller.
   • Importance of the Compiler as related to the hardware.
   • History of Computers..

1. Performance Analysis

       MIPS, MFLOPS,  comparing  performance of different architectures.

1. Instruction Set Design
   • What makes the computers fast ?
   • Computation of Execution time, CPI, and MIPS.
   • Accumulator machines, register machines, stack machines, and memory –memory machines.
   • Instruction Set Format and addressing modes
   • Detailed study of the MIPS Instruction set.

1. ALU Design
   • Add, subtract,  compare and other ALU operations.

1.  Floating point Arithmetic.
   • Hardwired Multipliers
   • Booth Algorithm.
   • Division Algorithms.
   • Floating Point representation: IEEE 754.

1. Processor Design.
   • MIPS processor datapath
   • Single and multicycle implementations  of mips
   • Controller Design: Hardwired controller and Microcode