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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Engineering : School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

433-251 Computer Organisation

Note:

Credit may not be gained for both 433-251 Computer Organisation and either 433-241 Computer Organisation or 431-204 Computer Engineering 2.

Credit Points:

When taken from School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering:
7.1
When taken from Computer Science, Faculty of Science:
6.25

Coordinator:

Dr Z-Q. Liu

Prerequisite/s:

433-142 (from 1998: 433-142 or 433-161 + 433-162)

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

26 lectures, 13 tutorials

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should: understand the general concepts involved in the structure and organisation of computer systems; be familiar with the architecture of one specific system and be able to write small programs for this system in assembly language; understand the basic concepts of digital logic; be familiar with various standard combinational circuits and be able to design small combinational and sequential circuits.

Content:

Modern computer organisation: CPU, bus and memory, secondary storage, input/output device interaction. Fundamental principles: logic gates, basic boolean algebra and binary arithmetic. Digital circuits, including combinational (no memory) and sequential (with memory) circuits. Basics in the implementation of memory. Buses. Introduction to assembly language programming. Translation of high level languages to assembler.

Assessment:

A 2 hour written examination at the end of the subject. Project work, which is expected to take about 30 hours must be completed satisfactorily to pass the subject. Weighting of assessment components will be made known at the commencement of the subject.
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