| Description |
Starts with functional components at the level of registers, buses,
arithmetic, and memory chips, and then uses a register transfer language
to manipulate these in the design of hardware systems up to the level
of complete computers. Specific topics included are microprogrammed
control, user-level instruction sets, I/O systems and device interfaces,
control of memory hierarchies, and parallel processing organizations.
Crosslisted with ESE 345. |