Guia docente 2023_24 Escola de Enxeñaría de Telecomunicación

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Preliminaries	Information Representation in computers. von Neumann Model. Structural, procesal and functional models.
2. Von Neumann Model	Components of von Neumman machine. Simple Machine. Central Processing Unit, Arithmetic and Logic Unit, memory, registers, buses.
3. Symbolic Representation and Processing .	Representation of basic data elements: integer, character, floating point. Conventions for data storage. Processing operations. Introduction to symbolic processing. Assembler language.
4. Instructions and addressing	Instructions and addressing modes. Software considerations. Registers at the conventional machine level. Register transfer language (RT level). Instruction formats. Addressing modes. Stacks and subprograms. RISC and CISC computers.
5. RISC Computer	Instruction sets & formats. Addressing modes. Assembler. Example programs.
6. CISC Computer	Instruction sets & formats. Addressing modes. Assembler. Example programs.
7. Device Management.	Device types. Management of variety. Models. Secondary memories. Interrupts. Service Rutines. DMA: justification.
8. Parallelism and parallel Architectures	Pipelining. Parallelism and memory access. Associative Memory. Parallel architectures. Vector processors. Multiprocessors.
9. Operating systems	The operating machine. Introduction to operating systems. Definition of an operating system.
10. Databases	Introduction to the database systems. Database types.