CEG 320/520: Computer Organization and Assembly Language Programming4 Intro to Computer Organization: Goals General –Basic types of computer operations Instruction cycle –Fetch-execute-store cycle Data Representation –Binary, hex, 2's complement Memory organization –Big Endian vs Little Endian –BYTE, WORD, LONG WORD –How memory is addressed in the Registers –Defining feature of a Von Neumann machine –Register size and how bits are numbered in the Reading: –General Computer Organization: HVZ Chapter 1, 7.1, 7.2 –Memory: HVZ Chapter 2.2
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