Peripheral Devices
Semestr: Summer
Range: 14+6c
Completion:
Credits: 4
Programme type: Undefined
Study form: Parttime
Course language:
Summary:
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.
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Course syllabus:
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
Seminar syllabus:
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
Literature:
1. Tanenbaum, A. S., Goodman, J.: Computer Architecture. Prentice Hall 1999