Terms Good to Know Before Enrolling in ECE4504

These are some of the terms you should have learned in the prerequisite courses. Please review any term that you may not be fresh on.

Boolean Algebra	Combinational Logic	Flip-flop	Finite State Machine	Registers
Multiplexer	Demux	Encoder	Decoder	Programmable Logic Array
K-Map	Prime Implicant	Sequential Circuit	Latch	Gate Delay
CPU	Datapath	ALU	Instruction	Register File
Assembly Language	Opcode	Operand	Load	Store
Branch	Addressing Mode	Instruction Format	Stack	Queue
Register Transfer	Memory	File System	Abstract Data Type	Pointers
Process	Virtual Address	Page Fault	Interrupt	Exception

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Advanced Terms Nice To Know

These are advanced terms that are not required before taking ECE4504, but you may have learned some of them already

Performance Bottleneck	Cycles Per Instruction	Instructions Per Cycle	Functional Unit	Floating Point
Instruction Fetch	Instruction Decode	Instruction Issue	Instruction Queue	Data Dependencies
Cache	Latency	Cycle Time	DRAM	SRAM
Taken Branch/Fall-through Branch	Data Bypass	Prefetch	Set-Associative Cache	Content Addressable Memory

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