Course Catalog - 2011-2012

     

ELEC 220 - FUND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Long Title: FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Department: Electrical & Computer Eng.
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Distribution Group: Distribution Group III
Credit Hours: 4
Description: An overview of computer engineering, starting with fundamental building blocks including transistors, bits, data representation, logic and state machines, progressing to computer organization, instruction sets, interrupts, input/output, assembly language programming, and linkage conventions, and ending with an introduction to architectural performance enhancements and computing services.
Course URL: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~elec220