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