CIS 240 Schedule

This course will roughly follow the structure of Patt & Patel's Introduction to Computing Systems and will likely include the following topics:

Basics of Digital Logic

Bits, Data Types, and Operations
Transistors, Gates, and Circuits

LC-3: A Simple Microarchitecture

The Von Neumann Model
LC-3 Instruction Set Architecture
Assembly Language and Machine Language
I/O: Polling and Interrupts
Subroutines and Traps
Memory Model

Programming in C

Variables and Operators
Control Structures
Functions
Pointers and Arrays