Computer Hardware I
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Course code
MII6005.DT
old course code
MII6005
Course title in Estonian
Riistvara I
Course title in English
Computer Hardware I
ECTS credits
3.0
Assessment form
graded assessment
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
Major subject for IT students and minor subject for other students. The objective of the course is to give theoretical knowledge about computers setup, parts and overview of hardware manufacturers.
Brief description of the course
Introduction to hardware course. Computers case, power supply units and their types, UPS. Motherboard, CPU, system buses, chipset. Memory, memory bus, BIOS, RAM, cache. System resources, IRQ, DMA, I/O ports. Storage devices, hard disk, floppy disk, CD-ROM. Controllers.
Teacher
lekt. Aivar Metsaveer
The course is a prerequisite
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