Telecommunications Engineering

 
Course: Computer Architecture I
  

Part I:

1. Structured Computer Organization.
   Definition
   Basic Units:
   1. Central Processing Units (CPU)
   2. Memory
   3. Input/Output System
   
   
2. Instruction Formats.
   TONY: Hypothetical Target Machine
   Operations:
   1. machine language
   2. assembler
   3. transition assembler to machine language
   
   
3. Performance Evaluation.

   Efficiency and measurements

   Relation among metrics

   
   
4. What is Computer Architecture ?.
   Hardware+ Software
   
   
5. Floting Point System.
   Representation
   Operations and pitfalls in Computations
   
   
6. Multiprocessor Systems:
   1. Shared memory
   2. Distributed memory
   
   

Part II:

1. Introducction.
   Historical perspective of operating Systems: Single user, Background-Foreground, Multiuser and Virtual memory systems
   
   
2. Requirements for designing an Operating System.
   Execution model and operating system´s structure.
   
   
3. Processses and Threads.
   How processes and threads are created, destroyed, communicated and synchronised
   
   
4. Virtual Memory Management.
   
   
5. File Systems and File I/O.
   Windows NT Filename Conventions.
   
   
6. Parallel Processing:
   1. Parallel computer efficiency
   2. Approach to parallel processing