Computer Organization

Catalog description

Fundamentals of the architecture and operation of modern computers. Computer arithmetic: number systems, number conversions including IEEE binary floating point number standard. Basic computer logic gates: combinational and sequential circuits, adders, ALU, SRAM and DRAM. Basic assembly language programming, basic Instruction Set Architecture (ISA), and the design of single cycle CPU. The MIPS based computers are used as example architecture, and alternative architectures are also discussed.