Course detail

Personal Computers

FIT-ITPAcad. year: 2010/2011

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.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Zdeněk Kotásek, CSc.

Department

Department of Computer Systems (UPSY)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

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.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

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

Course curriculum

  • 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.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

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

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Attending lab experiments, mid-term exam passing.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic 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

Recommended reading

  • Texty přednášek v elektronické podobě.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme IT-BC-3 Bachelor's

    branch BIT , any year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Zdeněk Kotásek, CSc.

Syllabus

  • 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.

Laboratory exercise

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Zdeněk Kotásek, CSc.

Syllabus

  • 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.