9618- Computer Science: Unit 15 Hardware and Virtual Machines

15 Hardware and Virtual Machines
15.1 Processors, Parallel Processing and Virtual Machines

• Show understanding of Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC) and Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC) processors
• Show understanding of the importance / use of pipelining and registers in RISC processors
• Show understanding of the four basic computer architectures
• Show understanding of the characteristics of massively parallel computers
• Show understanding of the concept of a virtual machine
  15.2 Boolean Algebra and Logic Circuits
• Produce truth tables for logic circuits including half adders and full adders
• Show understanding of a flip-flop (SR, JK)
• Show understanding of Boolean algebra
• Show understanding of Karnaugh maps (K-map)