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CSC 412 Computer Architecture and Organization

400 levelComputing & ICT10 topics

CSC 412 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Instruction set architecture and addressing modes
  2. CPU datapath and control unit
  3. Hardwired and microprogrammed control
  4. Memory hierarchy and cache memory
  5. Virtual memory organisation
  6. Instruction pipelining and hazards
  7. Input/output organisation and interrupts
  8. Bus structures and arbitration
  9. RISC versus CISC architectures
  10. Introduction to parallel and multicore architectures

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Instruction set architecture and addressing modes

Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) defines the interface between hardware and software: the machine instructions, data types, registers, and ways operands are specified. Addressing modes are a core part of ISA because they determine how the CPU locates data, and exam questions commonly test both definitions and the practical effect of each mode on instruction execution.

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