Processors and Primary Memory

20-Dec-00


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Table of Contents

Processors and Primary Memory

Basic overview of computer hardware

The processor

How it all works

Who does what

Fetch, decode, execute

Sequencing

Fetch, decode, execute

Pipelining and Superscalar architecture

Primary Memory

Memory locations

Storage options

Big and little endian

Big and little endian

Which is better?

Error Correcting Codes

What is an error?

Parity

Self correcting error codes

Hamming distance

Hamming distance -2

Hamming Distance - 3

The Hamming Code

Hamminmg Code -2

Hamming Code example

Cache memory

Author: Lillian N. Cassel

Email: cassel@acm.org

Home Page: http://lcassel.csc.villanova.edu

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