Chapter $5$: Big and Little Endian Expanding OpCodes Addressing Modes Instruction Pipelining Speedup Chapter $6$: Memory Hierarchy Cache Mapping Schemes $($Direct mapped, Fully Associative, Set Associative$)$ Replacement Policies Effective Access Time $($multiple levels, overlapped, non$-$overlapped$)$ Cache Write Policies Chapter $7$: Amdahl's Law I$/$O Architectures Assembly Programming: Assemble and Link programs $($yasm$,$ ld$,$ gcc$)$ Basic GDB commands: l$,$ r$,$ b$,$ n$.$ Examine memory with x Print memory and registers with p Basic ALU commands: add, sub, mul, imul, div, idiv, and, or$,$ xor, not, shift, rotate Bit test, bit field extract and modification Conditional statements and conditional iterations Creating and calling functions that take parameters