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This objective of this course is to provide the fundamental understanding of system architectures and their associated assembly language constructs and an understanding of the use of programmable hardware as a component of an embedded system.

Topics covered include:

• Basic computer architecture components
• Data representation
• The instruction set and assembly language for one processor
• Procedure invocation and support at the assembly-language level
• Modularity and program structure
• Devices and interfaces
• Serial input/output
• Interrupts and interrupt-driven input/output
• Conversion between analog and digital information
• Managing concurrency, the critical-section problem and semaphores
• Process management
• Introduction to memory management and caching