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Oct 17, 2026
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2026-2027 University Catalog
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CS 25000 - Computer Architecture
Credit Hours: 4.00. Digital logic: transistors, gates, and combinatorial circuits; clocks; registers and register banks; arithmetic-logic units; data representation: big-endian and little-endian integers; ones and twos complement arithmetic; signed and unsigned values; Von-Neumann architecture and bottleneck; instruction sets; RISC and CISC designs; instruction pipelines and stalls; rearranging code; memory and address spaces; physical and virtual memory; interleaving; page tables; memory caches; bus architecture; polling and interrupts; DMA; device programming; assembly language; optimizations; parallelism; data pipelining.
Learning Outcomes
1. Students understand the function of basic hardware, including fundamentals of digital logic, processors, memory, and I/O.
Credit Hours: 4.00
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