UNSW Handbook Course - Digital Systems Structures

Digital Systems Structures - COMP9022

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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering

School: School of Computer Science and Engineering

Contact:

Bond,James

Guo,Annie

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Corequisite: COMP9021; Excluded: COMP2021

Offered:

Session One

Session Two

Fee Band: 2

Description

Multilevel computing system description: High-level language - Assembly language - Operating Systems - Machine Code - Microprogram - Digital Circuit. Introduction to Computer Systems: processor/bus/memory/peripherals, introduction to fetch/execute cycle, CPU Organisation. Digital circuit level: basic components (processing, storage, communication), hierarchical logic descriptions, data and control paths, register transfer language, simple CPU structure. Machine code level: data representation, registers, instruction sets, fetch/execute cycle, programmers model of computer. Assembly language level: assembly language and machine code, assembly language format, the assembly process, assembly language and high-level languages. Laboratory: take-home digital-circuit kits, programming assignments.

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