Announcements

The final exam is Monday, May 10th 1:30-3:30PM
in the Computer Science Building, room 142.
Requests for a make-up exam due to a qualifying schedule conflict must be sent to the course staff before the last lecture.

Homework: Check out Edlab's Website if you are having trouble accessing your Edlab account.

This course provides an introduction to the architecture and machine-level operations of modern computers at the logic, component, and system levels. Topics include integer, scaled, and floating point binary arithmetic; Boolean algebra and logic gates; control, arithmetic-logic, and pipeline units; addressing modes; cache, primary, and virtual memory; system buses; input-output and interrupts. Simple assembly language for a modern embedded processor is used to explore how common computational tasks are accomplished by a computer.

This course is intended for undergraduate Computer Science and Computer Engineering majors.