CSCI 268 - Assembly Language and Computer Architecture

3 Credits
This course will examine the fundamentals of machine organization, assembly language, and machine language to expose the student to the fundamental operating principles of a central processing unit and related components. Topics may include instruction set architecture, assembling and linking, memory addressing modes, parameter-passing conventions, pipelining, cache and virtual memory organization, I/O and interrupts, registers, RISC vs. CISC, and data representation.

Prerequisite(s): CISP 111