COMPUTER ORGANIZATION

Catalog description

The Computer Organization course is designed to introduce students to computer system engineering which comprises of lower level abstractions of a computer (CPU, memory, resisters, ALU, and input/output devices), it's interconnections between hardware and software, functional performance, and cost objectives. The course also introduces students to computing data, assembly language, and basic circuit design. he use of assembly language leads to students' understanding of reduced instruction set architectures (RISC) using the MIPS as well as the SPIM simulator for the MIPS architecture. A brief introduction to hardware level security and realated protocols is provided. The course consists of three lecture hours and one two-hour laboratory per week.