This course is an introduction to computer architecture for first-year students. In this course, you will study: (1) the mother-board & its components; (2) the arrangement of computer components (CPU, memory, peripherals (I/O) and system bus) and their relationship & (3) the instruction set architecture (ISA). More precisely, the topics cover the CPU structure (ALU, registers, decoder), ISA (instruction, interrupt, pipelining technique, memory addressing modes).