Week 11

Chapters (Computer organization and design fundamentals):

• 15 Introduction to Processor Architecture
  • 15.1 Organization versus Architecture
  • 15.2 Components
    • 15.2.1 Bus
    • 15.2.2 Registers
    • 15.2.3 Flags
    • 15.2.4 Buffers
    • 15.2.5 The Stack
    • 15.2.6 I/O Ports
  • 15.3 Processor Level
  • 15.4 CPU Level
  • 15.5 Simple Example of CPU Operation
  • 15.6 Assembly and Machine Language
  • 15.7 Big-Endian/Little-Endian

Videos:

• Data Structure Alignment and Endianness
• Basic CPU Architecture and Instruction Execution
• Data Registers and the Program Counter (Instruction Pointer)
• Introduction to the Stack Pointer
• How Functions use the Stack Pointer
• Introduction to the Flags Register
• Example Operation of the CPU Flag Register

• Core Dumped: Creating a CPU
  • Machine Instructions
  • Address Bus
  • Compiler
  • Comntrol Unit