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2015-2016 Catalog (Original) [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

CS 214 COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE


Min Units 4 Max Units 4
This course covers the internal organization and operation of a representative von Neumann computer including instruction types, data representation, and addressing-modes. Assembly language programming will introduce symbolic addresses, assembler directives, input/output, system calls, and a call/return mechanism. The course concludes with an introduction to the C programming language and the way in which its high-level-language constructs are represented in assembly language. 4 CRNCR Y COMPSCI Prerequisite: CS120 or CS118