Preface(continued)Building an Adder and Decoder

1. Why do we care about speed?

2. Basic Architecture

3. What makes a computer processor fast?
       -Bus size
       -Word size
       -Clock speed

4. RISC, CISC machines

5. Parallel Processing machines

6. Simulator:  http://www.prenhall.com/reed/chapters.html

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