CPS 104: Computer Organization and Programming

Course Outline:

1. Introduction and brief history.
   
2. Computer organization.
   
3. A short "crash course" in C .
   
4. Instruction Set Architecture.
   
   • Assembly level programming.
     
   • Instructions and data types representations.
     
   • Addressing, procedure calls and Exceptions.
   • Linking & Loading.
     
5. Digital Logic:
   
   • Introduction: Digital Gates and Boolean Algebra.
     
   • Arithmetic and Logic circuits,.
     
   • Finite State Machines.
     
6. The Central Processing Unit (CPU).
   
   • The ALU.
     
   • The data path.
     
   • Finite State Control.
     
   • Microcode Control.
     
   • Microprogramming.
     
7. Buses and Interrupts.
   
8. The Memory Hierarchy.
   
   • Cache Memory.
     
   • Virtual Memory and Paging.
     
9. Pipelining.
   
10. I/O Devices and Networks.
11. Advanced Computer Architecture. (If there is time).