OBJECTIVES

Objectives:

• Use the principles of digital logic and Boolean algebra to implement the most elementary and fundamental of the computer’s basic building blocks

• Use instructions and simple addressing modes to execute a program

• Read the specification details for a PC system and understand and interpret them as performance indicators, and explain them in broad terms to non-computer personnel

• Show familiarity with the memory hierarchy of a computer system and devices associated with it

• Describe the principles behind, the choices between, and the functionality of peripheral devices commonly used with PC systems

• Understand the functionality and purpose of compilers and compiler types, invocation parameters, resource requirements, error-reporting methods

• Use the Internet for information searches and utilise some exemplary Internet technologies

• Gain a background knowledge of modern digital communications, including contemporary protocols and standards

• Critically review area networks (LANs and WANs) their design implementations and their bandwidth limitations with performance capabilities

• Correlate all the different measures of performance studied and derive an estimate of system performance

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