CS 3501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Instruction Set, High-Level Programming Language, Computer Architecture
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Computer org and arch ppt chapter 1 (1 of 2) Computationally infeasible: algorithms that are too complicated to run on today"s systems. What is computer organization: encompasses all physical aspects of computer systems, e. g. , circuit design, control signals (how the computer is controlled), signaling methods, memory types, computer organization helps us answer the question: how does a computer operate? . Principle of equivalence of hardware and software: any task done by software can also be done using hardware, and any operation performed directly by hardware can be done using software. High level language algorithms are implemented by lower level languages which are implemented by machine-level algorithms implemented electronically. Mechanism for transferring data to and from the outside world. Measurements: base 10: power, electrical voltage, frequency. , base 2: memory, disk space, digital base, data packet switch type measures. , measures of capacity and speed: Kilo- (k) = 1 thousand = 103 and 210 (actually 1024)
