Course title: Introduction to Computer Systems. Author: Piotr

Course title: Introduction to Computer Systems.
Author: Piotr Mielecki, Ph. D.
Contact: http://www.wssk.wroc.pl/~mielecki
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Basic definitions and history of the Computer Systems.
Sequential vs. parallel computing – Von Neumann architecture vs. neural networks.
Hardware structures – Central Processing Unit (CPU).
Hardware structures – system bus, internal (operational) memory.
Hardware structures – external memory (mass storage), input-output system.
System software – history, review and basic problems.
Application software – basic concepts, programming languages and developing tools,
designing of the software.
8. Application software – multimedia and communication.
9. Application software – office packets, databases and data warehouses.
FINAL TEST (last lecture).
Content description – Exercises:
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Introduction to binary codes – basic concepts and problems.
Machine representation of typical arithmetic data formats (natural and integer numbers).
Machine representation of more sophisticated arithmetic data formats (real numbers).
Machine representation of textual data formats (ASCI code, extensions and Unicode).
Introduction to hardware designing – logical circuits.
Introduction to hardware designing – sequential circuits.