FI:P094 PC Hardware - Course Information
P094 PC Hardware
Faculty of InformaticsAutumn 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
- Informatics (programme FI, B-IN)
- Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-IN)
- Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Informatics (programme FI, M-SS)
- Information Technology (programme FI, B-IN)
- 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
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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