CSC 204
computer architecture and organization
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Prerequisite |
Recommendations CSC
155 or higher-numbered CSC course or instructor's consent.
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Course Description |
| Course surveys various levels of hierarchical computer architecture and design. Content includes analysis of internal and external memory models, busses, I/O peripherals, CISC and RISC processor strategies; instruction formats; addressing schemes of microprocessors such as Intel Pentium and Power PC architectures, vectorizing multiprocessors and multicomputer systems.
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Course Objectives |
A. Review
the historical development of computers and computer architectures.
B. Understand information representation, error detection/correction
schemes and digital logic.
C. Identify the basic components of computer organization
and understand how they work together.
D. Learn the format of instruction sets and the operation
of the instruction cycle.
E. Survey the hierarchical internal and external memory organization
strategies.
F. Recognize current superscalar microprocessor and multiprocessor
models in today's market. |
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Instructional Materials: |
Required Textbook:
Computer Organization and Architecture: Designing for Performance
by Stallings, 6th Edition, Prentice Hall,
2003.
One floppy diskette. |
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