CEN468

Course Description

This course emphasizes the hierarchical structure of computer systems. It covers such topics as: components of computer systems and their configuration, design of basic digital circuits, the microprogram level, the conventional machine level, the operating system level, assembly language, addressing modes, interpreters/ translators, computer arithmetic. The course also introduces computer architecture and focuses on studying the computer components, system buses, internal and external memories, interfacing processors and peripherals, computer arithmetic, interrupts, pipelining and instruction sets. It also discusses the interaction between the computer hardware and the operating system and provides an overview of assemblers and linkers. Major Elective

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