COSC 230 - Computer Architecture

Credit Hours: 4
Frequency of Offering: Offered annually in the fall semester

This course studies the structure of computer hardware. Topics include models of computer hardware; instruction set architectures; simple code generation from a high-level language, machine code, simple logic design, representations of numbers and other data types, computer arithmetic, data path organization, input-output devices, control techniques (FSM and microcode), pipelines, caches, buses, virtual memory and primary, secondary and tertiary storage structures.

Prerequisite(s): COSC 130; and MATH 200 or MATH 281.