U231 Osobní počítače

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 1996
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 0 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Jaroslav Pelikán, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Contact Person: RNDr. Jaroslav Pelikán, Ph.D.
Prerequisites
P000 Computer Architecture
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Syllabus
  • Architecture of PC and its periferies.
  • Mikroprocessors Intel, evolution, properties. Addressing modes. Modern technics of instruction processing. Processors compatible with Intel processors. Intel Triton chip sets.
  • Bus, width, speed, comparison, compatibility.
  • Internal memories (RAM, ROM). Organization of RAM. Wait State. Cache memories. Associative cache memories. Technological realization of memory cells.
  • External memories (disks, diskettes). Their connecting. Hard disk data modulations. Interfaces between controllers and hard disk units. Disk arrays (RAID).
  • Videocards, evolution, properties, compatibilty.
  • Monitors. Principle of a color CRT. Basic monitor parameters.
  • PCMCIA devices.
  • Memory media, cassettes, SyQuest disks, Bernoulli disks, floptical disks, magnetooptical disks, CD-ROM.
  • I/O devices, keyboards, sound cards, scanners, printers, plotters, pointing devices. Review of other devices.
  • IRQ levels, DMA channels, I/O addresses, ROM addresses and RAM buffers.
  • Networks for PC. LAN and WAN, client/server, peer-to-peer, HW for networks.
  • Operating systems for PC. Basic concepts. Process, memory, information management. Multitasking, multiprocessing, multithreading, multiuser.
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1995, Autumn 1996, Autumn 1997.
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