Assembly language - open to bidding

Organization of a simple stored-program computer: CPU, busses and memory. Instruction sets, machine code, and assembly language. Conventions for assembly language generated by compilers. Floating-point number representation. Hardware organization. Address translation and virtual memory. Input/output devices, computer interfacing, interrupt handling and multi-tasking systems. Architecture (first half) I Basic model/organization of a computer from a programmer’s viewpoint I memory, processor, registers, memory model I instruction set I assembly language I machine language I operand locations Microarchitecture (second half) I Realizing a computer architecture with hardware blocks and control logic I Interconnection and control of digital elements I Performance considerations I Single-cycle processor I Multi-cycle processor I Pipelined processor