This course is intended to help you understand how computer hardware and software interact. It covers the basics of the language translation process, how the hardware deals with the translated version of a program, and how the hardware is designed in order to satisfy the needs of software. Experiments (both hardware and software) will be used to illustrate and emphasize important concepts.
4003-334 Computer Science 4
1016-265 Discrete Math I
Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, by David Patterson & John Hennessy, Fourth Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, 2009.
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