SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (ENGLISH) PROGRAMME COURSE DESCRIPTION
Name of the Course Unit	Code	Year	Semester	In-Class Hours (T+P)	Credit	ECTS Credit
COMPUTER ORGANIZATION	COM202	2	4	3+0	3.0	5.0

Objectives and Contents
Objectives of the Course Unit	Teaching the basic concepts of computer organization with specific emphasis on modular design of reduced instruction set computers. Helping the students to understand the principles behind the design of modern computer systems and tradeoffs such as cost/performance or speed/flexibility.
Contents of the Course Unit	RISC processors, MIPS instruction set, MIPS addressing modes, Addition and subtraction, Logic operations, Constructing the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), Multiplication and Division algorithms, Floating point numbers, Floating Point arithmetic algorithms, Datapath and Control Logic conventions and clocking, Finite state machines (FSM) and Microprogramming. Pipelining.
Contribution of the Course Intending to Provide the Professional Education	To give the students the knowledge of how hardware and software work together efficiently.