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B.S. in Actuarial Science

Otterbein University Course Catalogs

2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

COMP 3300 - Computer Architecture

Hours: 4
Lecture and Laboratory. The study of digital representation, logic circuits, and memory. The detailed study of the fetch-execute cycle of a simplified computer architecture. Circuits are built in the laboratory to provide the student insights into the operation of a CPU at the electronic component level. Comparative study of 0,1,2, and 3 address machines, and complex instruction set (CISC) verses reduced instruction set (RISC) architectures. Assembly language is studied including subroutine and interrupt linkage. Algorithms are translated into assembly language. Algorithms dealing with the translation of assembly language to machine language, and the linking and loading of programs are studied. Techniques of high-performance computing are introduced.
 
Prerequisites: COMP 2100.