Organization of a simple stored-program computer: CPU, busses and memory. Instruction sets, machine code, and assembly language. Conventions for assembly language generated by compilers. Floating-point number representation. Hardware organization. Address translation and virtual memory. Input/output devices, computer interfacing, interrupt handling and multi-tasking systems.
This course may not be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite(s)
- Computer Engineering 339 and Electrical Engineering 353.
Sections
This course will be offered next in
Winter 2018.