Professor Cullen Lecture Notes

Computer Architecture

Diagrams

First Assembler

ASCII Code Table

Hello World (IBM BAL source code)

Hello World (IBM BAL listing)

IBM System 370 Reference Summary

ProgramCheck Interrupt Handling Schematic

External Interrupt Handling Schematic

SupervisorCall Interrupt Handling Schematic

Input/Output Interrupt Handling Schematic

Binary Arithmetic examples

Multiplication Using Registers

Division Using Registers

Address vs Contents at Address

Single Cycle CPU Processing

A Pipelined Process

Forwarding/Bypassing Remediation

Exception Hazard

Address Offsetting

Fully Associative Cache concept

Set-Associative Cache concept

Single Contiguous Memory

Dynamic Partitioning

Partition Relocation

SPOOLING (Unit Record Virtualization)

CPU Pipeline with DAT

Real Memory as a cache for Virtual Memory

Page Map Table DAT

Paged Memory Management

Segmented Memory Management

OS Regains and Transfer Control

VM Hypervisor and Guest Configuration

VM PRIVOP Interception

KVM to zVM Virtualization Path

Direct Memory Access

Page Locking during I/O

Synchronous HandShaking Protocol

Asynchronous Transmission Protocol

Race Condition Example

Shared Resource - Traffic Intersection

Faulty Test and Set causing Resource corruption

Test and Set for Resource Serialization

Simultaneous MultiThreading Example

Papers

Meltdown and Spectre Hack

Guest Lectures

Richard P. Feynman lectures QED

Richard P. Feynman "Theres Plenty of Room at the Bottom"

Richard P. Feynman "Fun to Imagine"

Richard P. Feynman Heuristics lecture

Richard P. Feynman "Quantum Mechanical View of Reality"

Book Information References

IBM Principles of Operation

NetWide Assembler documentation

LINUX System Calls Reference 64-bit

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