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1. Course Introduction; The Level of Computer Structure; Architecture and Organization
2. Introduction to Digital Logic
3. Sequential Circuits
4. Representing Information in Binary
5. Introduction to the VonNeumann Architecture and MIPS
6. Control Structures
7. Procedures
8. Exceptions and Interrupts
9. Other CPU Architectures
10. CPU Implementation; the Register Transfer Level
11. Control Unit Implementation: Hardwired Control and Microprogramming
12. Pipelining and Superscalar Architectures
13. Memory Devices
14. Memory Hierarchies
15. Error Detecting and Correcting Codes
16. Input-Output Devices and Interfacing
17. Parallelism