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Inside The Machine

These notes were developed by the idea to organize concepts and information about how a processor works.

0. 0. Introduction
1. 1. Basic Computing Concepts
2. 2. The Mechanics of Program Execution
3. 3. Pipelined Execution
4. 4. Superscalar Execution
5. 5. The Intel Pentium and Pentium Pro
6. 6. PowerPC Processors: 600 Series, 700 Series, and 7400
7. 7. Intel’s Pentium 4 vs. Motorola’s G4e: Approaches and Design Philosophies
8. 8. Intel’s Pentium 4 vs. Motorola’s G4e: The Back End
9. 9. 64-Bit Computing and x86-64
10. 10. The G5: IBM’s PowerPC 970
11. 11. Understanding Caching and Performance
12. 12. Intel’s Pentium M, Core Duo, and Core 2 Duo
13. 13. Bibliography and Suggested Reading