COURSE TITLE : COMPUTER HARDWARE AND NETWORKING ...

Panel / rear side connectors, cables and connectors, SMPS, floppy disc drive, hard discdrive, CD- ROM drive, display unit and keyboard.1.2.0 Study the functional blocks of mother board – CPU, RAM,BIOS, CacheRAM,1.2.1 Familiarize with the BUS Standards – PC BUS – ISA, PCI, AGP & USB Architectures.1.2.2 Explain BIOS, services, organization and interaction. CMOS, CMOS setuputilities1.3.0 Study the type of Motherboard - Processors – CISC and RISC.1.3.1 Familiarize with Chipsets – features of Intel, 945 series chipset mother boards.1.3.2 Understand the Processors – CISC and RISC, Features of Pentium 4 ,Dual core ,Coreduo, Core 2 duo processor, AMD series processors (K6,ATHLON,DURON ) VIA CYRIX CPU’s ( 6x86MX , VIA/CYRIX III, VIASAMUEL II ), Chipsets – features of Intel 945 series chipset Motherboards .1.3.3 Explain the working of SMPS for computers with block diagram.MODULE II2.1.0 Describe the memory organization in PC’s2.1.1 Distinguish between static and dynamic RAM, DRAM, and SynchronousDRAM, Extended Data out DRAM, Double Data Rate SDRAM, And Direct Ram busDRAM, Cache Memory, extended/Expanded/Virtual memory.2.1.2 Explain briefly various I/O port – Serial port, Parallel port, Game port, USBport.2.2.0 Study the Magnetic storage fundamentals – read/write head, writing and reading.2.2.1 Explain Hard disk drives with drive sub assemblies, hard disk controller and its functionswith functional block diagram, interfacing of HDC,SATA technology.2.3.0 Familiarize the installation and configuration of HHD with configuring, formatting, andpartitioning. FAT, Data Reading, Data writing (FM, MFM ), Boot record, Directorystructure .2.3.1 Explain briefly the principle of operation of CD-ROM disks including types, reading andwriting of CD with block diagram2.3.2 Study DVD technology with DVD disks, DVD drive block diagram and DVD formats.2.3.3 Describe the Installation of CD and DVD media drives.2.3.4 Familiarize with the FDD and special devices, Disc construction, Types, FDDConstructions, Drive operations- types, FDC operation, PEN Drives, Flash drives, I podsMODULE III3.1.0 Explain the principle of operation of Dot matrix printer, LASER printerand Ink-jet printer with block diagram3.1.1 Describe Keyboard with its types, operation, and signals, interface logic,and keyboard functions.3.2.0 Understand the principle of operation of optical Mouse with mouse signals andinstallation.3.2.1 Describe the principle of operation of Scanner with types and installation.3.3.0 Study the various Display systems and Video basics3.3.1 Explain the working of VGA monitor with functional block diagram