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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
How Computers Work: Demystifying Computation
Raspberry Pi Foundation and National Centre for Computing Education
This online course explored the basics of how computers work, from the use of transistors up to the CPU. It covered how transistors act as digital switches and combine to create logic gates, combining gates to perform binary calculations, Von Neuman Architecture and the Fetch-Excute cycle.
4 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr Sue Sentance
Raspberry Pi Foundation
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain how transistors can act as digital switches and be combined to create logic gates
- Produce truth tables for AND, NOT and OR gates, individually or combined
- Explain how computers use binary arithmetic
- Describe how logic gates can be combined to produce digital circuits that can perform a calculation
- Describe Von Neuman Architecture and the Fetch-Execute cycle
Syllabus
- How computers use binary arithmetic
- How transistors can act as digital switches and be combined to create logic gates
- Creating truth tables for AND, NOT and OR gates, individually or combined
- How logic gates can be combined to produce digital circuits that can perform a calculation
- Von Neuman Architecture and the Fetch-Execute cycle
Issued on 7th January 2021
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