Processen en processoren/Organisatie/Doelen

After completing the course:

• You can explain the basic principles of computer organization.
• You can describe the levels present in modern computers.
• You can explain how a processor organization interrelates with its instruction set.
• You can describe commonly used ways for processor performance enhancement.
• You have some knowledge of circuit design and of assembly programming.
• You can explain the concepts of processes & threads as used in modern operating systems.
• You can explain the basic principles of concurrency, and describe commonly used synchronization primitives.
• You are able to solve simple synchronization problems and to establish correctness of your solution.
• You can explain basic algorithms for solving uniprocessor, multiprocessor and real-time scheduling problems.