CSP 23400 — PC Architecture and Assembly Language
This course covers computer architecture and assembly language programming for x86 and Intel64 processors. The topics include: classical von Neumann machine, major functional units, virtual machine concept, and instruction set architecture, elementary Boolean operations, instruction execution cycle (instruction encoding, fetch-decode-execute cycle), memory access and handshaking, interrupts and I/O operations, floating point binary representation and assembly language programming.
Prerequisites: CSP 15000