COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE AND OPERATING SYSTEMS (6 SCU)

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able to manage multiple operating systems, systems software, network services and security. They should be able to evaluate and compare systems software and emerging technologies; use appropriate resources to stay abreast of the latest industry tools and techniques analyzing the impact on existing systems and applying to future situations; classify operating system techniques according to its principles; describe available methods and protocols to perform a computing job; assess the efficiency of techniques for managing computing resources.

Topics:

The course is designed to explain about computer architecture and organization, which includes computer evolution and performance, computer interconnection structures, internal and external memory, I/O, operating systems support, computer arithmetic, instruction sets, CPU structure and function, RISC, superscalar processors, control unit operation, micro programmed control, multiprocessors and vector processing, and digital logic. In addition, it is also designed to explain the mechanism of general modern operating systems, which includes the history of most operating systems, their concepts, components, and functions, and how the common operating systems work in the hardware framework. Furthermore, the hands-on lab session will be the focused in an open source operating system, such as Linux, with the intention of broadening students’ mind, knowledge, and interest of an alternative open-source operating system.

Pre-requisite: None