CSC 5043 - Computer Architecture

3 Credit Hours

This course helps students to understand the basic operation of computer hardware, how it works, and how it interfaces to software and operating systems. Representative topics include data representations, machine level representations of programming language (e.g., the C language), processor architecture, memory hierarchy, exception flow (exceptions, interrupts and processes), virtual memory and memory management, system-level 1/0, basic network programming, and concurrent programming. Upon completing this course, students should have a high level understanding of computers, assemblers, instruction sets, and hardware.

Prerequisite: CSC 3103 Computer Organization
Availability: Even Fall/Summer

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