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8 Design Tradeoffs

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1 Basics of Information
2 The Digital Abstraction
3 CMOS
4 Combinational Logic
5 Sequential Logic
6 Finite State Machines
7 Performance Measures
8 Design Tradeoffs
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9 Designing an Instruction Set
10 Assembly Language, Models of Computation
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11 Compilers
12 Procedures and Stacks
13 Building the Beta
14 Caches and the Memory Hierarchy
15 Pipelining the Beta
16 Virtual Memory
17 Virtualizing the Processor
18 Devices and Interrupts
19 Concurrency and Synchronization
20 System-level Communication
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21 Parallel Processing
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8.2.1 Power Dissipation
8.2.2 Carry-select Adders
8.2.3 Carry-lookahead Adders
8.2.4 Binary Multiplication
8.2.5 Multiplier Tradeoffs
8.2.6 Part 1 Wrap-up

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