Instructor: Dr. Tom Carter
DBH-287 667-3175
tom@csustan.csustan.edu
http://csustan.csustan.edu/~tom
Texts:
The required text for this class is
Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture (3rd ed.)
by Linda Null and Julia Lobur
Objectives: This course will focus on understanding the physical and
logical hardware technologies used in digital computer systems, including memory organization, bus structures, CPU, pipelining and parallelism, and control unit organization. We will cover much of the material in the book, along with
additional topics as appropriate.
Grading: The grades for this course will be based
on three elements: homework, midterm, final / project. Each of these
will carry approximately equal weight.