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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Computer Science |
| Grao en Intelixencia Artificial |
 Subjects |
| Introduction to Computers |
| Contents |
| Identifying Data | 2022/23 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Introduction to Computers | Code | 614G03012 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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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 - Instruction set |
| 3.- The processor | - Types of processors - Instruction-level parallelism |
| 4.- The memory system | - Memory hierarchy - Cache - Principal memory - Virtual memory |
| 5.- Input/Output | - Basic concepts - I/O Techniques - File systems |
| 6.- Operating system | - Processes - Process control structure - Operating System Services |
| 7- Parallel Systems | - Introduction to parallel systems - Multicore Systems - Shared Memory Systems - Distributed Memory Systems |
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