CPS 104: Computer Organization and Programming

Course Outline:

1. Introduction to Computer Organization.
• What is in the box.
• Integer and Floating point representation.
• Basic data structures.
2. Instruction Set Architecture.
• The MIPS Processor.
• Assembly level programming.
• Instructions and data types representations.
• Addressing, procedure calls and Exceptions.
• Linking & Loading.
3. Digital Logic:
• Introduction: Digital Gates and Boolean Algebra.
• Arithmetic and Logic circuits,
• Other Functional Units
• Flip-flops, Registers and Tristate drivers
4. Single Cycle Per Instruction Processor.
• The Datapath.
• Executing Instructions
• Control
5. Interrupts.
6. The Memory Hierarchy.
• Cache Memory.
• Virtual Memory and Paging.
7. I/O Devices.
• I/O storage devices.
• I/O buses and arbitration
• LANs and WANs.
8. Advanced processors:
• Pipelined Processor.
• Super-Scalar processor.
9. Advanced Computer Architecture. (If there is time).
• Fast Interconnects
• Parallel Machines