Peripheral Devices

Code	Completion	Credits	Range
XD36PZA	Z,ZK	4	14+6c

Lecturer:

Miroslav Šnorek (gar.), Jiří Kačer

Tutor:

Miroslav Šnorek (gar.), Jiří Kačer

Supervisor:

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Synopsis:

Computer peripheral devices interface techniques and software support. Buses and point-to-point connections. System bus and I/O bus standardisation. External memories. Principles of magnetic and optical storing techniques. Data organisation, coding and reliability improvement on external memory media. Typical interface standards. Output and input devices. Displays, printers, plotters. Keyboards, digitizers and tablets, scanners, audio and video input digitizers.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Input/output subsystem architecture

2. Principal differences in peripheral interfacing on different computer platforms (mainframe, mini, micro, etc.)

3. Interface bus standardisation

4. Channel: multiplexed, selector, adapter

5. Data coding techniques. Improvement at stored data reliability

6. External memories - basic principles

7. Magnetic and optical memories - technological solution

8. Promising technologies. External memory interface standardisation

9. Output devices: printers

10. Displays: electrooptical units

11. Displays: controller, standardisation

12. Plotters: interpolation, standardisation of SW interface

13. Input devices: keyboards, digitizers and tablets, mouses. Interface standardisation

14. Scanners, audio and video input devices

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Standard interfaces - examples

2. Hardware design of a user interface adapter I.

3. Hardware design of a user interface adapter II.

4. Channel - seminar

5. External memory reliability increasing

6. Laboratory task analysis

7. Block of laboratory experiments

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12. Display accelerator analysis

13. Standardisation of the output device SW interface

14. Evaluation

Study Objective:

Study materials:

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

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2011/2012:

Time-table is not available yet

Time-table for summer semester 2011/2012:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
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Thu	roomT2:A4-204 Kačer J. 09:15–10:45 EVEN WEEK (lecture parallel1) Dejvice UčebnaroomKN:E-302 Kačer J. 12:45–14:15 EVEN WEEK (parallel nr.1) Karlovo nám. HW labor.
Fri

The course is a part of the following study plans:

Computer Technology- structured studies (compulsory course)