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1. Course Introduction; The Level of Computer Structure; Architecture and Organization; A Bit of History; A Bit of Binary
2. Combinatorial Logic
3. Sequential Circuits
4. CPU Building Blocks
5. Representing Information in Binary
6. Error Detecting and Correcting Codes
7. Introduction to the MIPS Architecture and Assembly Language
8. Control Structures
9. Procedures and Parameters
10. Exceptions and Interrupts
11. Other CPU Architectures
12. CPU Implementation; the Register Transfer Level
13. Control Unit Implementation: Hardwired Control and Microprogramming
14. Pipelining and Superscalar Architectures