Systems and Computer Engineering (SYSC)
Department of Systems and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
SYSC 2001 [0.5 credit]
Computer Systems Foundations
Computer architecture and organization: CPU, cache, memory, input/output, bus structures, interrupts; computer arithmetic: integer and floating point; CPU: instruction sets, addressing modes, instruction encoding. Input/output: programmed, interrupt-driven, block-oriented. Examples from several modern processor families.
Prerequisite:
ECOR 1606 or
SYSC 1102
Lectures three hours a week, laboratory two hours a week.