Computer Science Comprehensive Exam
Architecture Syllabus
1997-1998
Topics:
digital logic, microprogramming, instruction set design, processor
design, assembly language, linking and loading, memory hierarchy,
cache memory, pipelines, I/O devices.
References:
- Hennessy, J. and Patterson, D., Computer Organization and Design:
The Hardware/Software Interface, Morgan Kaufmann, (exclude parallel
computing chapter).