IDENTIFYING DATA 2017_18
Subject (*) FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTERS Code 17224002
Study programme
Bachelor's Degree in Telematics engineering (2010)
Cycle 1st
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
6 Basic Course First 2Q
Language
Català
Department Electronic, Electric and Automatic Engineering
Computer Engineering and Mathematics
Coordinator
CANTÓ NAVARRO, ENRIQUE FERNANDO
E-mail enrique.canto@urv.cat
Lecturers
CANTÓ NAVARRO, ENRIQUE FERNANDO
Web http://moodle.urv.net/moodle/course/view.php?id=64479
General description and relevant information Structure, organization, logical design, operation and interconnection of computers; fundamentals and performance of assembly language; Operation and use of operating systems.
In this subject you only have the right to make the exam, because the degree you are studying is going to be extinguished. You have to take a look the timetable of the subject to know the exam's date. If you need an extraordinary exam session, you have to enrol for this, presenting an application to the secretariat of your campus or faculty.

Continguts
Topic Sub-topic
Elements of a computer system
Computer organization
Coding and information processing
Logic design Analysis of combinational logic-circuits.
Analysis of sequential logic-circuits.
Synthesis of basic finite-state machines.
Fundamentals of machine language
Basic operating system use

Atenció personalitzada
Description
Students can attend in person to the office of professor in office hours to ask him any questions related to the theoretical explanation and practical implementation issues or developments and practical difficulties in the learning process.

Avaluació
 
Other comments and second exam session

The assessment elements of the course are 6: initial test, logic test, logic labs, ARM practice, final test, and ARM problem.

Students must obtain a minimum score in each of the 6 elements of assessment in order to pass the course. If any element of assessment does not reach the minimum, the final mark of the course shall not exceed 4.5. The minimum score is the same in the 1st and in the 2nd examination period.

The evaluation will be continuously during 1st examination period.

In the 2nd period the assessment will consist of three tests (initial, logic, final), a problem (ARM) and ARM practice (logical laboratories can not be recovered in 2nd examination period). Students must examine the elements of evaluation that have not obtained the minimum score in 1st call. If submitted in 2nd period, the note will be that of the 2nd period (whether it would be upper or lower than 1st call).

The grades from the previous course that exceed the minimum for making average are kept.

In conducting written tests, there are not allowed to use any electronic devices (calculators, computers, tablets, phones, watches, etc.).

If we detect any copy in any activity evaluation, the grade of this examination period will be 0, and the student should take again all the assessment elements in the next examination period (we will not keep any of the previous grades).


Fonts d'informació
Basic Professors/es Fonaments Computadors, Transparències Fonaments Computadors, 2017, ETSE-URV (Tarragona)
William Stallings, Computer Organization and Architecture, 10th ed (2015), Prentice Hall
Thomas L. Floyd, Fundamentos de Sistemas Digitales, 2000, Pearson Prentice-Hall
Javier García Zubía, Problemas Resueltos de Electrónica Digital, 2003, Thomson

Complementary William Hohl, ARM assembly language : fundamentals and techniques, 2009, CRC Press
Mano M. Morris, Charles R. Kime, Fundamentos de diseño lógico y de computadores, 2005, Pearson Prentice-Hall
John P. Hayes, Introducción al diseño lógico digital , 1996, Addison-Wesley
Steve Furber, ARM System-on-Chip Architecture, 2nd ed (2000), Addison-Wesley Professional

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