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Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2024-2025

CSC 211 Computer System Organization

Credits: (3)
This course emphasizes the underlying organization and operation of real computer systems at the architectural level. Assembly language is introduced to study machine instruction, control flow constructs, interfacing subroutines with the language C, as well as the internal representation of simple data types and structures. Topics include the fetch/execute cycle, bus structures, memory hierarchy and management, addressing modes, I/O, and subroutines. Prerequisite(s): CSC 110  or CSC 111   Three lecture hours per week.