UMBC CMSC 313, Computer Organization & Assembly Language, Fall 2003, Section 0101

Introduction & Overview

Thursday 08/28, 2001

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Assigned Reading in Murdocca & Heuring:  1.1-1.8

Assigned Reading in Neveln:  1.1-1.6

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Topics Covered:

• Slides for today: Slides01.pdf
• Course Overview
• Levels of machines
• Machine models: von Neumann vs. System Bus
• Fetch-Execute Cycle
• Laptop disassembled
• Review of base conversion: from base 6 to base 10, base 10 to base 6, binary numbers, hexadecimal numbers.