Digital Sound Processing

7.1 The essential architecture of a computer system
• Computer Architecture (overview)
• The components of a computer system.
• Overview of a microprocessor's components.
• How computer memory works.
• Overview of the fetch-execute cycle.
 
7.2 A look inside the central processing unit
• What is a CPU? (and some slides describing its operation).
• The CPU info centre (for specific examples & details).
• The CPU and the fetch-execute cycle.
• The ALU.
• Definition of Program Counter.
• Integrated circuits.
• How a microprocessor works.
• Microprograms.

 
7.3 The representation of instructions in a computer
• See also chapter 9 for more on Computer Programming.
• Representation of Instructions
• Overview of Coding.
• Binary and Hexadecimal.
• The Assembler language tutorial.
• Assembler Programming (links) or an overview.
• Types of language and the Computer Languages List.
• Catalogue of free compilers and interpreters.

7.4 The representation of data in a computer
• The Binary homepage and another binary tutorial.
• 2's complement and other number representations and another.
• Data representations in C programs.
• Floating-point numbers and DSPs.
 
7.5 The components of programs
• Steps of program development.
• Structured design (an on-line lecture).
• Flowcharts and program design.
 
7.6 Conditional branching and the program status word
• Program Status Word (an example) and more detailed discussion.
• An example of conditional branching.
 
7.7 Subroutines and stacks
• Definition of a subroutine.
• A detailed example of computer memory.
 
7.8 Summary
• An on-line lecture about Computer Essentials.
• The Assembler language tutorial gives details of internal computer operation.

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