Students of the degree in Engineering in Telecommunication Technologies interact with computers both as specialized users and as designers and developers of complex systems, where computers play a central role in their design and even as systems’ components.
Hence, the motivation for a course in computer architectures is to provide students with a fundamental understanding of computer operations. For this, computers are studied at the conventional machine level, which abstracts away implementation details that will be discussed in electronics/microelectronics courses and serves as the foundation for the symbolic machine level, at which computers are programmed using high-level languages.
Besides, this course provides an introduction to the operating machine level by discussing basic operating systems concept, and shows an example application of the symbolic machine level through the introduction of the Database Management Systems.
This is an English Friendly course: International students may request from the teachers: a) materials and bibliographic references in English, b) tutoring sessions in English, c) exams and assessments in English.
