The computer system -- The central procesing unit -- The control unit -- Performance enhancement -- Appendix: digital logic -- A brief history -- Computer interconnection structures -- internal and external memory -- input/output -- Operation systems -- Computer arithmetic -- Instruction sets: characteristics and function -- Instruction sets: addressing modes and formats -- CPU structure and function -- Control unit operation -- Microprogrammed control -- Reduced instruction set computers -- Superscalar processors -- Parallel organization

1. Computer organization
2. Computer architecture