Learning Objectives



CLO

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:1. Understand digital logic and how it is used to build a computer system.2. Explain how CPU functions to run a software program.3. Develop assembly programs to control the operation of the CPU.4. Understand the format of instructions and their operations.5. Understand the role of the other components of a computer system such as buses and memories and howthey work together.

Lecture plan:

Number System (CLO 1)

Binary

Hex

ASCII

Units (CLO 1)

Kibibytes, Kilobytes etc.

Hardware Architecture (CLO 2)

Data bus

Address bus

Microcontrollers

On-chip peripherals review

Compilers and Programming Languages (CLO 3, CLO 4)

Compiled vs. Interpreted languages

C compiler

Hands-on with a compiler