Key words
Objectives
A walk through computersystems
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of informatics and electronics of the candidatures)
Topics
A general description of microprocessors and microprocessorsystems (buses,
memories, I/O-interfacing), referring to the most recent processors of Intel
and Motorola. Other topics covered: pipelining, virtual memory management,
virtual I/O-instructions, parallel processing and RISC-architectures,
FDD-drives, HDD-drives, CD-ROM, interfacing technologies (IDE, SCSI, PCMCI,
AGP, PCI, serial and parallel ports, keyboard), graphical adaptors and
network adaptors.
Teaching Methods
lectures + hands-on exercises
Materials used
teacher's course + textbook (Structurized Computer Architecture, A.S.
Tanenbaum)
Study guidance
Assessment
oral examination (57÷) + exercises (43÷)
Study costs
Lecturer(s)
Language
dutch
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