P094 PC Hardware

Faculty of Informatics
Autumn 1999
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.
Prerequisites
P000 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.
  • Microprocessors Intel, evolution, properties. Addressing modes. Modern techniques 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, compatibility.
  • Monitors. Principle of a color CRT. Basic monitor parameters.
  • PCMCIA devices.
  • Memory media, cassettes, SyQuest disks, Bernoulli disks, floptical disks, magnetooptical disks, ZIP disks, JAZ disks.
  • CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW disks.
  • 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.
Literature
  • PELIKÁN, Jaroslav. Architektura počítačů PC. FI MU Brno, 1998. URL info
  • MINASI, Mark. PC - velký průvodce hardwarem. Praha: Grada, 1998, 1218 s. ISBN 8071696676. info
  • DEMBOWSKI, Klaus. PC v tabulkách : podrobný průvodce osobními počítači. 1. vyd. Brno: Unis Publishing, 1996, 432 s. info
  • BRANDEJS, Michal. Mikroprocesory Intel Pentium a spol. Praha: Grada, 1994, 412 s. ISBN 8071690414. info
  • BLATNÝ, Jan. Číslicové počítače. 2. vyd. Praha: SNTL - Nakladatelství technické literatury, 1982, 493 s. URL info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
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 2000, Autumn 2001.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 1999, recent)
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