CSCD 211 — Computer Organization and Architecture
Computer Science · University of Ghana
This course will study topics such as : Computer system specification ; Performance issues ; Instruction set selection ; ALU design ; Architecture design ; Data path selection ; Control systems ; Single and multiple clocks Pipelines ; Memory hierarchy ; I/O architectures. 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.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 200
Other courses on this programme
- CSCD 201 — Information Systems
- CSCD 202 — Programming II (with Java)
- CSCD 205 — Programming I (with C ++)
- CSCD 207 — Numerical Methods
- CSCD 212 — Computer Ethics
- CSCD 214 — Digital Electronics
- CSCD 216 — Data Structures & Algorithms
- CSCD 218 — Data Communication & Networking I
- CSIT 201 — Professional, Legal, Moral and ethical issues in IT
- CSIT 202 — Introduction to Computer Networks
- CSIT 203 — Computer Hardware Fundamentals
- CSIT 204 — Introduction to Information Security
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).