Overview

Indicative content includes:

• CPUs, the von Neumann and Harvard models.
• Binary mathematics and operations.
• Digital logic, AND, OR, NAND, NOR, NOT, and XOR.
• Processes,
• Scheduling and resource sharing
• memory management

Learning Outcomes

• Apply the binary, octal, and hexadecimal number systems and apply conversions between them.

• Explain the key components of a general computer system.

• Solve process scheduling and other resource sharing operations common to operating systems.

• Understand the fundamental digital logic operations and extend them to create higher order operations.