Logic Design and Computer Architecture

Aim:
The student is introduced to the basic contents necessary to study the computer hardware and a thorough introduction to computer architecture 
Contents:
Digital Systems and Binary Numbers, Boolean Algebra and Logic gates, K-maps, Combinational Logic Circuits Analysis and Design, Synchronous Sequential Logic Circuits Analysis and Design, Registers, Counters. Fundamental Concepts and ISA, Addressing Modes, Data Path for Single Cycle MIPS, Control Path for Single Cycle MIPS, Control Path for Multicycle LC3, Data Path for Multicycle LC3 Processor, Pipelining, Instruction Level Parallelism, Multicore Architecture, CPU Performance Metrics, Analyzing the Memory Performance.