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Buzzwords are terms that are mentioned during lecture which are particularly important to understand thoroughly. This page tracks the buzzwords for each of the lectures and can be used as a reference for finding gaps in your understanding of course material.
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* Adder implementation (Bit serial, ripple carry, carry lookahead)
* Connection machine (an example of a machine that use bit serial to tradeoff latency for more parallelism) * Microprocessor: ISA + uArch + circuits * What are a part of the ISA? Instructions, memory, etc. * Things that are visible to the programmer/software * What are not a part of the ISA? (what goes inside: uArch techniques) * Things that are not suppose to be visible to the programmer/software but typically make the processor faster and/or consumes less power and/or less complex