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Appendix: Personnel & Enrollment
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EENG
352
Basic Organization of Computer Systems
3 cr
Same as CSCI 231. Prerequisite: CSCI 110. Offered in fall and spring.
Description of a hypothetical computer system, the CPU main memory, I/O subsystem and all related components. In-depth discussion of the architecture of the Intel 80x86 based microprocessors and of available assemblers, linkers, library managers and debugging tool. Macro assembler programming techniques involving building, incorporating and maintaining libraries, and using assembler pseudo-ops and directives. Debugging and testing techniques. Interfacing a high level language with an assembly language. Chip level programming of microprocessor type systems. Topics covered include I/O ports, I/O devices and controllers, DMA channels, priority interrupts.