CMS 230 - Computer Organization and Architecture

Introduction to the study of how software controls the critical hardware components of a computer’s architecture, the CPU and RAM. Topics include development of C language programs, comparison of high-order
procedural languages to machine language programs, CPU organization and functionality at the register/bus level, instruction formats, and development of machine language and assembly level programs using multiple addressing modes, flow-of-control branching and subroutine calls. Prereq(s): CMS 121