The document discusses stack data structures and their implementation in CPU organization. It describes stacks as last-in, first-out (LIFO) data structures that support two main operations: push and pop. It then covers register and memory-based stack implementations, including the use of stack pointers, data registers, and algorithms for push and pop in each case. The key difference is that register stacks grow with increasing addresses while memory stacks grow with decreasing addresses. The document concludes with an example of how stacks are used to evaluate arithmetic expressions by operating on the top two elements of the stack.
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