FI:P094 Personal Computers - Course Information

P094 Personal Computers

Extent and Intensity

3/0. 2 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
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 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

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.

• Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 1998, recent)
  
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