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Understand Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC) and Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC) processors.
The differences between RISC and CISC. Understand interrupt handling on CISC and RISC processors.
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Understand the importance and use of pipelining and registers in RISC processors.
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Understand the four basic computer architectures.
SISD, SIMD, MISD and MIMD.
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Understand the characteristics of massively parallel computers.
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Understand the concept of a virtual machine.
Give examples of the role of virtual machines. Understand the benefits and limitations of virtual machines.
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