Introduction to Machine Language and Digital Logic

Catalog description

This course teaches the concepts of assembly and machine language and digital logic as they relate to a modern digital computer. The machine representation of instructions and data are presented along with many of the fundamental concepts such as machine instruction addressing, stack operations, subroutines and procedures. The Digital Logic section of this course introduces elementary logic gates (AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR) and shows how they are used to construct more sophisticated working components of a modern digital computer (Flip Flops, Registers, Counters, Adders). Students will then learn how these components are used to implement the Hardware Machine Cycle which translates a software instruction into a series of hardware functions. Prerequisites: CSCI 151 or COSC 1436 .