Number and data representation. Overview of the logical structure of computers, instruction set architecture, instruction execution sequencing. Assembly language programming, assembly versus high-level languages. Datapath and control unit design. Principles of memory hierarchy, I/O, and interrupts. Introduction to pipelining and parallelism. (0/0/0/26/22) PREREQUISITES: APSC 142, ELEC 271 or MTHE 217 (MATH 217) or permission of instructor EXCLUSION: CISC 221
