Unit 15: Hardware and Virtual Machines

15.1 Processors, Parallel Processing and Virtual Machines

1 Show understanding of Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC) and Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC) processors

2 Show understanding of the importance/use of pipelining and registers in RISC processors

3 Show understanding of the four basic computer architectures

4 Show understanding of the characteristics of massively parallel computers

5 Show understanding of the concept of a virtual machine

15.2 Boolean Algebra and Logic Circuits

1 Produce truth tables for logic circuits including half adders and full adders

2 Show understanding of a flip-flop (SR, JK)

3 Show understanding of Boolean algebra

4 Show understanding of Karnaugh maps (K-map)