Course Code:
CEID_ΝY261
Type:
Semester:
Instructors:
Credit Points:
6
Α. Lectures and Tutorials
Introduction: Hardware, software, Computer architecture, Computer structure and organization, input and output units, Computer performance.
Information representation:
- Data
- constant point arithmetic
- floating point arithmetic
- alphanumeric
- image
- sound
- instructions
- machine instruction types
- addressing modes
- operands size and type
- machine instructions encoding
- machine instructions based computer classification
Central processing unit:
- data path
- ALU
- register file
- shifter
- divider
- multipier
- floating point unit
- control unit (structure and implementation)
Memory system:
- memory technology
- semiconductor
- magnetic
- optical memories
- memories hierarchy
- main memory implementation.
Interconnection and input-output system:
- bus
- bus types
- synchronous and asynchronous busses
- bus arbitration
input-output process
- polling
- interrupts
- direct memory access
Β. Laboratory
ARM programming model
Instruction set of ARM
Programming at assembly language level
Program debugging