P094 PC Hardware

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 2001
Extent and Intensity
3/0. 3 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
Teacher(s)
RNDr. Jaroslav Pelikán, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Karel Pala, CSc.
Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: RNDr. Jaroslav Pelikán, Ph.D.
Timetable
Fri 9:00–11:50 D1
Prerequisites
( P000 Computer Architecture || P500 Computer Architecture )&&! U231 Personal Computers
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 peripheries.
  • Mainboard.
  • Microprocessors Intel.
  • Internal memories and their technological realization. Cache memories.
  • Bus, width, speed, comparison, compatibility.
  • Magnetic data recording. Hysteresis of ferro-magnetic materials.
  • External memories. Magnetoresistive heads.
  • Interfaces between controllers and hard disk units.
  • Graphic cards. Port A.G.P.
  • Monitors. Principle of a color CRT. LCD displays and their operational principle.
  • PCMCIA standards and USB bus.
  • Memory media, cassettes, magnetic disks.
  • Magneto-optical disks, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW disks.
  • I/O card. Serial and parallel data transfer.
  • Soundcards, record and synthesis of a sound. MIDI.
  • Printers.
  • IRQ, DMA, I/O addresses, ROM addresses and RAM buffers.
  • Review of other devices.
Literature
  • PELIKÁN, Jaroslav. Architektura počítačů PC. FI MU Brno, 1998. URL info
  • MINASI, Mark. PC - velký průvodce hardwarem. Praha: Grada. 1218 s. ISBN 8071696676. 1998. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/pelikan/ARCHIT/TITLE.HTML
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 1998, Autumn 1999, Autumn 2000.
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