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Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) - Machine language - Assembly language
Combinational logic
Sequential logic
Memory elements, registers and interconnection.
The processor: datapath and contro.l
Pipelining.
Memory hierarchy.
Advanced Applications.

More detailed description:

Introduction
Von Neumann architecture - Architecture levels

Assembler
Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) - Machine language - Assembly language - MIPS Assembly language - Intel Assembly language (introduction).

Combinational logic
Truth tables and combinational circuits - Gates - Boolean Algebra - Logic functions and canonical forms - Implementation - Examples: decoder, multiplexor, adder, Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU). Additional examples.

Sequential logic
Flip-Flops and latches - Clocking methodology - Finite state machines (Moore machine and Mealy machine) - Implementation

Memory elements
Registers - Register file - Memory typologies - SRAM - DRAM

The processor: datapath and control
Single-cycle implementation (datapath and control unit) - Multi-cycle implementation - Microprogramming - Exception - Performance evaluation

Pipelining
Pipelined datapath and pipelined control - Structural hazards - Data hazards, stalls and forwarding - Control hazards, delayed branch, static and dynamic branch prediction - Performance evaluation with hazards - Advanced pipelining: static and dynamic multiple-issue (introduction).

Memory hierarchy
Principle of locality - Cache memory (direct-mapped cache, set-associative cache, multilevel cache) - Hit/miss rate - Miss penalty - Accessing a cache (write-through and write-back) - Performance evaluation

Basic elements of Input/Output management

Health&Wealth advanced applications