Architecture and assembler

Select and implement a conventional combinatorial and/or sequential digital circuit. Understand how a computer architecture works. Principles of computer architectures (instruction search, instruction sequencing, memory access, interrupts).

Introduction: Technological evolution, Von Neumann's principle

Instructions: Format, Coding, Memory Access

Processing unit : Building blocks (Combinatorial elements, Sequential elements), How an architecture works, Possible improvements

Instruction decoding: Principle of instruction decoding, Microprogramming

Interrupt systems : Principle and consequences, Vectorization

Input/output systems : Principle, Interface circuits