Areas covered:
a. CPU basics
b. Register set
c. Datapath
d. CPU instruction cycle
e. Control Unit
a. CPU basics: CPU components (register set, ALU, control unit); general-purpose and special-purpose registers; execution cycle; interrupts; micro-orders and microprogramming
b. Register Set: MAR; MDR; instruction fetching registers; condition registers; special-purpose registers (index registers, segment pointers, stack pointers); 8086 registers; MIPS registers
c. Datapath: 1-bus, 2-bus, 3-bus organization; analysis of execution cycle for the different organizations
d. CPU Instruction Cycle: Fetch instruction;
