CS 325 Computer Organization and Hardware

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Prerequisites: CS 252 with a grade of C or better.
How is your computer built from the ground up? How does the machine impact software? Fundamentals of computer hardware. How computer hardware works from the bottom up, starting at the circuit level and ending at the operating system level. Topics include boolean logic and circuits, boolean arithmetic, assembly language, CPU architecture, memory organization, assembler implementation, syntax analysis and code generation.

Three (3) hours lecture.