CIT 593 Introduction to Computer Architecture

Topics:

1. Course Overview

Why study computer architecture? How do computers work? How does hardware and software come together for complex computations?

2. Introduction to Unix/Linux computing environment

Unix commands, editor for writing programs

3. Binary Representation

Radix number system, character representation, binary arithmetic, and conversion from one radix to another

4. High-level language

C programming

5. Instruction Set Architecture (ISA)

Interface between hardware and software, overview, LC3 ISA and assembly, subroutine linkage conventions

6. Computer System Organization

Processor, Memory, I/O

7. Operating System

Roles, virtual & cache memory, interrupts, polling

8. Other

Pipeling, multi-processing, multi-threading