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منصور بن عبدالعزيز الزعير

Professor

Computer Engineering Dept.

علوم الحاسب والمعلومات
Building 31 2nd floor Off. 2230A
course

CEN316Computer Architecture

Review of logic design principles. History of computers. Basic computer organization. Data representation; Design of a hardwired-controlled basic computer; Processor organization; ALUs, bus and stack organizations; Instruction sets and instruction formats; Machine and Assembly language programming. Assembler function and design. System software. Micro-programmed CPU. Comparison between CISC, RISC and VLIW processors. Introduction to memory organization; I/O operations; Introduction to parallel processing techniques