CIS 360 Introduction to Computer Systems

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CIS 360Introduction to Computer Systems

• Rick Parent
• DL787
• 2-0055
• parent_at_cis.ohio-state.edu
• www.cis.ohio-state.edu/parent

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Course Bulletin

• Introduction to computer architecture
• assembler language programming

CPU
Memory
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Role in Curriculum

• Computer Architecture
• Assembler Language Programming

560
221-321
360
675
775
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Introduction to Computer Architecture

• Understand internally how computer works
• Assume electronics to make AND, OR gates
• Understand how simple functional units are made
  from AND/OR gates
• Understand how information is transferred
  internally

CPU
Memory
Clock
registers
Instruction decoder
adder
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Machine Language Level
Everything is encoded in binary

• Data
• Integers
• Characters
• Float point

• Instructions
• Flow of control
• Arithmetic
• Bit manipulation

integers
CPU
Memory
characters
instructions
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Assembly Language Programming

• Three-levels of languages
• Machine language
• Assembly language
• High-level languages

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Information

• Get
• The book
• The 360 course packet

• Forget
• The optional text

See my web page and the pages it links
to www.cis.ohio-state.edu/parent/classes/360/syl
labus.html
Read the class notes for schedule, lab manual,
labs, homeworks, exercises
Newsgroup cis.course.cis360 Email
parent_at_cis.ohio-state.edu