This course introduces students to the basic concepts of computers,
their design and how they work. It encompasses the definition of the
machine’s instruction set architecture, its use in creating a program,
and its implementation in hardware. The course addresses the bridge
between gate logic and executable software, and includes programming
both in assembly language (representing software) and HDL (representing
hardware). It will cover modern computer principles using a typical
processor and emphasize system-level issues, understanding process
performance, and the use of abstraction as atool to manage complexity.
It will then explain how efficient memory systems are designed to work
closely with the processor. Next, it will introduce input/output (I/O)
systems which bring the processor and memory together with a wide range
of devices. Finally, we introduce systems with many processors
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