Faculty of
Engineering

 This course covers aspects of computer organization and architecture. It discusses computer as a hierarchical system of different components and their building blocks and input/output units: processor, memory, I/O modules and their different interconnection schemes (CISC/RISC, locator, clock distribution, handshake, arbitration…). The basic performance characteristics on computer systems are also introduced, including processor speed, memory speed and hierarchy, interconnection data rates as well as the basics of operating systems.