Course details

Personal Computers

ITP Acad. year 2011/2012 Summer semester 5 credits

Current academic year

The course will provide students with up-to-date information on personal computer technique. Students will acquire the information on the principles of personal computer structure, I/O buses, elementary principles of external adapter construction and buses for the communication with peripheral devices.

Guarantor

Kotásek Zdeněk, doc. Ing., CSc.

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Completion

Examination

Time span

  • 26 hrs lectures
  • 26 hrs laboratories

Department

Department of Computer Systems (UPSY)

Subject specific learning outcomes and competences

Students will become acquainted with the principles of PC construction and certain typical peripheral devices construction. In laboratory tutorials the attention will be paid especially to the principles of peripheral device control.

Learning objectives

To provide students with the information on personal computer structure, parameters, its component structure and trends for the future.

Recommended prerequisites

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

There are no prerequisites

Study literature

  • Texty přednášek v elektronické podobě.

Fundamental literature

  • Hans-Peter Messmer: The Indispensable PC Hardware Book, Addison-Wesley, 1997, Anglie, ISBN 0-201-40399-4, 1384 stran
  • Hans-Peter Messmer: The Indispensable Pentium Book, Addison-Wesley, 1995, USA, ISBN 0-201-87727-9, 496 stran
  • Scott Mueller: Upgrading and Repairing PCs, QUE, 2008, ISBN 0-7897-3697-7, 1556 stran
  • Carl Hamacher, Zvonko Vranesic, Safwat Zaky: Computer Organization, McGraw Hill, 2002, ISBN 0-07-232086-9, 805 stran
  • William Stallings: Computer Organization and architecture, designing for performance, Prentice Hall, 2006, ISBN 0-13-185644-8, 778 stran

Syllabus of lectures

  • The Developmnent Stages of Personal Computers, Parameters, Concepts.
  • The Development Stages of Intel Microprocessor Architectures.
  • The Implementation of CISC and RISC Arhitectures in Intel Microprocessors.
  • Memory Organization, Elements, Technologies, Memory Addressing, I/O Ports Addressing. CMOS Memory.
  • Cache Memory, its Organization and Implementation.
  • Coprocessors and Their Role in Personal Computer.
  • The Information on Actual Chipset.
  • The Principles of Peripheral Operations Control, PIO Modes, Interrupt Request, Direct Memory Access.
  • The Developmnent Stages of Personal Computer Buses.
  • Centronics, Its Structure and Communication.
  • The Principles of Personal Computer Adapter Design and Construction.
  • The Buses for Peripheral Operations Control.
  • LANs, components.

Syllabus of laboratory exercises

  • PC Power Consumption. 
  • VGA Interface.  
  • Communication with Keyboard, Keyboard Controller.
  • PCI Express System Bus.
  • PCI System Bus. 
  • How to Develop Drivers under Windows and Linuz OS. 
  • USB.
  • Communication with D/A Converter.
  • HDD, Controller and Its Structure, Registers, Peripheral Operation Control Through Registers, disc organisation.
  • The Control of Peripheral Operations by Means of DOS/BIOS Facilities.
  • HDD, Controller and Its Structure, Registers, Peripheral Operation Control Through Registers.
  • Graphic Adapter, Controller and Its Structure, Registers, Peripheral Operation Control Through Registers.

Progress assessment

Study evaluation is based on marks obtained for specified items. Minimimum number of marks to pass is 50.

Controlled instruction

Attending lab experiments, mid-term exam passing.

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