Concepts of computer system organization and programming; instruction and data representations; basics of digital logic design; instruction set decoding and addressing modes; fundamentals of assembly language; the organization and the operation of the central processing unit, memory system, and I/O interfaces; I/O structures; direct memory access; interrupts; bus protocols.

Homepage	http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/li/cs250/index.html
Usually Offered:	Fall and Spring
Credit:	4 hours (3 class/2 lab)
Prerequisite:	CS 182 and 240
University Catalog:	CS 250
Schedule:	Fall 2007 Instructor: Zhiyuan Li