FI:U231 Personal Computers - Course Information

U231 Personal Computers

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 1997

Extent and Intensity

3/0. 2 credit(s). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Guaranteed by

Contact Person: doc. Ing. Michal Brandejs, CSc.

Prerequisites

P000 Computer Architecture
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, Spring 1996, Autumn 1996.