CHAPTER 2

Elementary processor architecture (H&P §3.1)

Pipelining (H&P §3.2)

Hazards (H&P §3.3-4)

Avoiding stalls

Instruction scheduling (H&P pp.155)

Most students should have seen much of this before...

Alternative textbook: Patterson and Hennessy's Computer Organisation and Design, the Hardware and Software Interface has a detailed intro to pipelining (Ch.6) (but does not help with the rest of the course).