CMSC 411 Selected Lecture Notes

CS411 Selected Lecture Notes

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 Lecture numbers correspond to the syllabus numbering.

Lecture 1, Introduction

Lecture 2, Benchmarks

Lecture 3, Performance

Lecture 4, CPU operation

Lecture 5, Instructions and Registers

Lecture 6, VHDL Introduction

Lecture 7, Computer Arithmetic

Lecture 8, ALU

Lecture 9, Multiply

Lecture 10, Divide

Lecture 11, Floating Point

Lecture 12, VHDL circuits and debugging