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IFT 212 Computer Architecture and Organisation

200 levelComputing & ICT11 topics

IFT 212 covers 11 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. Principles of computer hardware and instruction set architecture
  2. Organisation of the von Neumann machine
  3. Internal CPU organisation and implementation
  4. Instruction formats and types
  5. Addressing modes and stack operations
  6. Interrupts and I/O control
  7. Data path and control unit design
  8. Microprogramming and hardwired control
  9. Assembly language programming
  10. Memory hierarchy: cache and virtual memory
  11. I/O organisation

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Principles of computer hardware and instruction set architecture

This topic introduces the basic principles that govern computer hardware and the instruction set architecture (ISA) that software uses to control that hardware. For exam success, you must understand the roles of the CPU, memory, input/output and buses, and also how ISA defines operations, data types, registers, addressing and machine-level instructions.

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