Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Computer Science |
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Grao en Intelixencia Artificial |
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Identifying Data | 2024/25 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Introduction to Computers | Code | 614G03012 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Graduate | 1st four-month period |
First | Basic training | 6 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
1.- Introduction to computers and operating systems | - Basic functional blocks of a general purpose computer - Basic concepts of the Operating System - Performance metrics |
2.- Information Representation | - Coding of integers - Coding of real numbers - Coding of characters |
3.- The processor | - Instruction set - Types of processors - Instruction-level parallelism |
4.- The memory system | - Memory hierarchy - Cache - Principal memory - Virtual memory |
5.- Operating system | - Operating system components - Processes |
6.- Input/Output | - Basic concepts - I/O Techniques - File systems |
7- Parallel Systems | - Introduction to parallel systems - Multicore Systems - Shared Memory Systems - Distributed Memory Systems |
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