COMP 2659

(3 Credits) 3 Lecture hours, 1 Laboratory hour, 1 Tutorial hour (formerly COMP 3325) An introduction to the organization of the CPU, memory, I/O interfaces, I/O devices, and busses of a computer system and to the interfaces between its hardware and software. Includes combinational and sequential digital logic design, hardware interfacing to peripheral devices, programming techniques for asynchronous and real-time I/O, and interrupt processing.