EG 2068 Course Pages

Computer
Hardware
& Software

Lecturer: Gorry Fairhurst (Room: S026, Email: G.Fairhurst@eng.abdn.ac.uk)

Syllabus

Course pages

Course C code examples

ASCII Character Set

Colour Copies of Course Slides (24 pages in PDF)

Copies of Course Tutorial Sheets 1-5 (5 pages in PDF)

An example Class Test (based on Dec 99) (2 pages, PDF)

Solutions to the above Class Test (2 pages, PDF)

samplepaper.pdf

Colour Copies of an Animation Sequences

Sequence to show the Fetch/Execute Cycle (8 pages in PDF)

(as above with 6 scenes per pages, 5 pages in PDF)

Sequence to show a JSR/Procedure Call (10 pages in PDF)

(as above with 6 scenes per pages, 7 pages in PDF)

Course Books

There are many books on Computer hardware and software which you will find useful to consult. Tutorial work will assume that you have looked at books to supplement the lectures.

Here are some books:

• Clements The Principles of Computer Hardware Oxford Science.
• Patterson & Hennessy Computer Organization & Design Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.