PHY 363 — COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
BSc BSc Physics · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Logic works. Motorola M68000 assembler (on Unix). B7 numbers: representation and operations. Binary, octal, hex representation. Base conversions. Negative numbers (sign – magnitude, 1’s complement, 2’s complement). Floating point numbers. Addition, subtraction, multiplication (integer, real, carry/borrow, overflow). Character representation (ASCII). B7 Boolean algebra. Boolean logic theorems. Basic functions: NOT, AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR. Truth table. Logic symbols. B7 combinational design. Don’t cares, miniterms, maxterms. Sum-of-products, product-of0sums form. NAND, NOR representations. Karnaugh maps. B7 Boolean design and simulation of logic. Using logic works. B7 sequential logic. Latches and flip-flops (SR, D, JK, T). State representation. State representation. Present state, next state, outputs. State diagrams and tables. Finite state machine implementation. B7 computer organization. Block diagram. CPU: ALU, registers, stacks Memory: DRAM, SRAM 2. PHYSICS WITH BIOMEDICAL PHYSICS
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Level 300
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