Personal Computers

• 26 hrs lectures
• 26 hrs laboratories

Students will learn how to utilize knowledge gained by studying general principles of computer systems structure to attain the information on modern computer systems. This approach will be used to explain students the structure and features of personal computers and other modern computer systems. They will gain a knowledge of Intel in this area. Students will be provided with the information on the development of the architecture, internal structure, system buses and input/output buses, and peripheral devices of personal computers and other modern computer systems.

To develop knowledge gained in the courses dealing with the construction of computers, the way of implementing these principles in personal computers will be presented. To present evolutionary stages of processor architectures used in personal computers. To explain principles of memories and cache memories. To demonstrate students the principles of system buses and input/output buses operation. To give students a survey on peripheral devices used in personal computers installations.

• Design of Computer Systems (INP)

The principles of digital circuits and digital systems design, basic principles of peripheral devices and their controllers design.

• Texty přednášek v elektronické podobě.

• 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

• 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.
• PCI Bus, Its Structure and Communication.
• The Principles of Personal Computer Adapter Design and Construction.
• The Buses for Peripheral Operations Control.

• PC Construction and Its Components.
• Communication with Keyboard, Keyboard Controller.
• PPI 8255 as a Component for the Communication Control with a Peripheral Device.
• The Communication Through Parallel Interface, Matrix Oriented Peripheral Device Control.
• The Communication Through Serial Interface, Vector Oriented Peripheral Device Control.
• The Control of Peripheral Operations by Means of DOS/BIOS Facilities.
• Optical Character Recognition, Scanner.
• EIDE Disc, Logical Structure.
• SCSI Bus.
• SCSI Disc Control.
• FDD, Controller and Its Structure, Registers, Peripheral Operation Control Through Registers.
• HDD, Controller and Its Structure, Registers, Peripheral Operation Control Through Registers.
• Graphic Adapter, Controller and Its Structure, Registers, Peripheral Operation Control Through Registers.

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

Attending lab tutorials, mid-term exam passing.