Intro to Computer Systems. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisite: CS 280 with a grade C or better. Students learn an in-depth understanding of computer internals from a programmer's perspective. It delves into the design and construction of internal hardware to execute programmers' instructions written in the high-level language C. The course covers essential programming components, including assignments, branches, arithmetic and logic operations, loops, functions, and recursions. Assembly language constructs are presented to correspond with their high-level language counterparts, which are translated into hardware using digital logic. This course explores a sequential x86-based machine, pipelined computers, cache memory, main memory, virtual memory and its translation of logical address to linear address and to physical address.