Course Description
This is an introductory course on topics of computer architecture. The course will provide an an examination of various components that make up a computer system, including CPU, memory, input/output, and buses, as well as how they all work together to form a functioning computer system. The major advances in the computer organization and architecture including von Neumann architecture, interrupts, the family concept, microprocessors, cache memory, virtual memory, virtual I/O, pipeling,
RISC, superscalar processors, IA-64 (EPIC), micro-programmed control unit as well as parallel processing
are also presented.
Required Text
Computer Organization and Architecture (8th), by
William Stallings, Prentice Hall, 2009.
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