Processen en processoren/Organisatie/Onderwerpen

The following topics will be discussed during the course:

• number encodings and Boolean algebra,
• logical gates and circuits,
• computer structure, for example: processor, memory, control unit, ALU, i/o device, bus,
• processor operation, for example: instruction, instruction set, instruction cycle, interrupt,
• basic assembly programming,
• processes and threads,
• concurrency, for example: mutual exclusion, semaphores, monitors, message passing, deadlock, starvation,
• resource allocation and scheduling: uniprocessor scheduling, multiprocessor and real-time scheduling.