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S6 - PC & PC BASED SYSTEMS


MG University S6 Computer Science & Engineering B.tech Syllabus
Module 1 Introduction to PC
Hardware components – study of motherboards ––Different types of ports, slots and connectors-Add-on cards-Power supply– SMPS- function & operations.
Module 2 Storage Devices
Floppy – Floppy Disk Controller – Disk Physical specification & operations – Disk magnetic properties – Cylinders – Clusters – Hard disks – Hard disk drive operation – Magnetic data storage – Sectors – Disk formatting – partitioning – Hard disk features – Hard disk data transfer modes –Programmed I/O – Direct memory access – Ultra DMA – Data addressing – Standard CHS addressing – Extended CHS addressing – Logical Block Addressing.
Module 3 Optical Storage
CD ROM, CD Technology, Sector layout, CD-R, CD-RW, CDROM, drive specifications- data transfer rate – Access time – Constant linear velocity – constant angular velocity – Buffers – Interface – Magneto optical drives – WORM devices –DVD- RAID – Holographic storage.
Module 4 Memory Management in PC
Parity – ECC – Static & Dynamic RAM – Memory Addressing – Segmented addressing – 64 KB Limits – 640 KB barrier – Logical, segmented, virtual, linear and physical memory addresses – Extended and Expanded memory – Cache memory – Video memory – HMA – Flat memory model – Advanced memory technologies.
Module 5 Bus Structures
ISA, PCI, PCMCIA, AGP, USB, Hard Disk Interfaces – IDE, EIDE, ATA – Communication ports – Serial – Parallel port – Keyboard / Mouse Interface connectors.
References
1. PC Hardware Complete Reference – Craig Zacker & John Rourke, Tata McGraw Hill
2. Inside the PC (8th Edition) – Peter Norton,BPB
3. The Indispensable PC Hardware Book – Messmer, Pearson Education
4. Troubleshooting and Repairing Your PC – Corey Candler, Wiley
5. Upgrading and repairing PC’s (4th edition) – Scott Mueller, Pearson Education
6. IBM PC Assembly Language Programming – Abel, PHI
7. PC Upgrading Maintenance & Trouble shooting guide – Dr. S. K. Chauhan, Kataria