Peripheral Devices

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Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Synopsis:

Architecture of I/O subsystem, connecting peripheral devices to personal computers, standard bus interfaces, channels, principles of secondary storage systems, coding of data in secondary storage systems, CD-ROM principles, evolution perspectives of storage systems, printers, displays, plotters, input devices, multimedia and virtual reality.

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Syllabus of lectures:

1. I/O subsystem architecture overview

2. I/O programming

3. Channel - the main feature of the 3rd generation computers

4. Standardization of the bus interface

5. Standardization of the point-to-point interface

6. Principles of secondary storage systems

7. Data coding

8. Displays

9. Printers

10. Plotters

11. Keyboards and digitizers

12. Image input devices

13. Input and output of audio-signals, multimedia peripherals

14. Reserve

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Typical PC interfaces

2. Signals and timing of ISA

3. Design of an ISA adapter

4. Standard system interfaces

5. Channel and SCSI

6. VGA adapter

7. Laboratory

8. Laboratory

9. Laboratory

10. Laboratory

11. Laboratory

12. Diskette adapter design

13. Demonstration of SCSI analyzer

14. Credit

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Study materials:

[1] Tanenbaum, A. S., Goodman, J.: Computer Architecture. Prentice Hall 1999

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No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans: