Computer Architecture

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: ECE 150

Computer abstractions, performance measures; number representations and ALU operations; accumulators, registers and stack-based design; instruction sets, addressing modes; datapath and control, microprogramming; memory hierarchy; I/O, bus design and data transfer; interrupts. Focus on MIPS with extensions to ARM. Hardware descriptive language (HDL). Course work includes assembly programming and the design of a simulated processor using Verilog.

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