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Material Type: Notes; Professor: Locklair; Class: Senior Seminar; Subject: Computer Science; University: Concordia University - Wisconsin; Term: Fall 2006;
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4 October , Day 12 CSC 325 – Computer Organization and Architecture I review see chapters 1 and 2 in CS:AO for good review material Architecture = high-level view of H/W a programmer’s (assembly lang, machine lang) view creates a computer “family” Organization = deep view of H/W ex: multiplication instruction existence of a multiplication instruction is architectural issue implementation of a multiplication instruction is an organizational issue Function – what does it do? Structure – how is it connected? Organization: fundamental h/w (of processor unit) component is … switch transistor gate – combination of transistors which performs a Boolean function Boolean functions: not, or, and show truth tables, gate symbols functionally complete set – minimum number of diff. functions needed to create any Boolean function a. and, or, not b. nand show nand show how to create “not circuit” using nand show how to create “and circuit” using nand CSC 490 Course Notes and Outline, © Dr. Gary Locklair, Fall 2006