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2014-2015 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

CIS 314 - Computer Architecture

Credits 4
Requirements: Prereqs: CIS 273, 360
General organization of a computer system. Memory hierarchy. Emphasis on memory organization and management implementation. Local and long distance communication, bus, input-output organization and control. Programmed I/O and I/O processors. Interrupt handling. Processor organization; instruction set; arithmetic-logic unit; parallel and stack processors. Programmed and hardwired, central and distributed control.
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