Final Review Chapter 6, 7, 10, 11

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Final ReviewChapter 6, 7, 10, 11

• SCSC 311
• 2006 Spring
• Dr. Frank Li

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Chapter 6 System Integration and Performance

• System bus
• three types of system bus
• bus protocol
• Bus clock rate, bus cycle, and data transfer rate
• Master-slave bus vs. Peer-to-peer bus
• Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)
• Direct memory access (DMA)
• Logical Access vs. Physical Access
• Device Controllers

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Chapter 6 (2)

• Interrupt and Interrupt Processing
• Buffer
• The law of diminishing returns
• Cache
• Why cache works?
• Read and write process in cache
• Cache controller
• Three-level cache in Intel CPU

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Chapter 6 (3)

• Multi-core processors vs. Multi-CPU architecture
• vs. Clustering
• Scaling up vs. Scaling Out
• Pros and Cons
• Compression, compression ratio
• trade off between CPU and communication/storage
• Lossless compression vs. Lossy compression
• Definition
• usage

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Chapter 7 I/O Technology

• Characteristics of matrix-oriented image
• composition.
• Display surfaces pixel, resolution
• Fonts point
• Color
• additive vs. subtractive color system
• Chromatic resolution
• Numeric pixel content
• Bitmap
• calculate storage needed
• Two disadvantages
• Monochrome vs. Grayscale vs. Color display
• color palette

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Chapter 7(2)

• Image storage
• GIF, JPEG, MPEG
• Image Description Languages (IDL)
• Components
• What are advantages of IDL (comparing to bitmap)
• PostScript vs. Portable Document Format (PDF)
• Displays
• Video display terminals
• Network computers
• Video controller
• Monitor Cathode ray tubes (CRTs), Liquid crystal
  displays (LCDs), and Plasma displays
• Basic working mechanism
• Advantages and disadvantages

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Chapter 7(3)

• Printer Impact (dot matrix), Inkjet, and Laser
• Basic mechanism
• Common manual input devices and Optical Input
  Devices
• Audio I/O Devices
• Sampling
• DAC ADC
• Speech recognition Speech generation
• Basic mechanism
• Phoneme

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Chapter 10 Application Development

• Capabilities required of any data / information
  processor
• Recognizing
• Storing and retrieving
• Transporting
• Manipulating
• Positional Numbering System
• binary, decimal, octal and hexadecimal notations
• The conversions among them.

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Chapter 10 (2)

• Application development process
• Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Unified Process (UP)
• Definition of Methodologies, Models Tools
• Programming Language
• Definition of programming language
• Instruction explosion
• Procedural vs. non-procedural
• Classification 5-generation 2-category
• Characteristics
• Samples
• Pros and Cons

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Chapter 10 (3)

• Four types of instruction
• Compilation and Compiler
• compilation of different instruction
• Advantages of compile separately
• Link Editor
• Benefits of Link Editors in Program Translation
• Static linking vs. dynamic linking
• Interpreter
• Interpret vs. Compilation
• Why Java is platform independent?
• JVM
• Pros and Cons

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Chapter 10 (4)

• Symbolic Debugging
• Features and benefits
• CASE tools
• Front-end back-end CASE
• Sample Rational Rose and UML (additional
  material)
• Programmers workbenches
• Components
• Samples NetBean, MS visual studio, Borland
  JBuilder,

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Chapter 11 Operating System

• What is OS?
• Components
• Two main functions
• Structure
• Layered structure
• Modularity
• Single-Tasking vs. Multitasking
• Differences
• Why multitasking?
• Samples

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Chapter 11 (2)

• Virtual resource vs. Physical resource
• Definition
• Why need virtual resource?
• How to realize virtual resource
• Resource allocation
• Goals
• Basic mechanism
• Process
• Definition
• The relationship of program and process
• Process creation
• PCB

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Chapter 11 (3)

• Thread
• Definition
• The relationship between process and thread
• Thread states
• A complete view of interrupt processing
• Timer interrupt and why OS needs it?
• CPU scheduling
• What is it?
• Three basic scheduling mechanisms

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Chapter 11 (4)

• Memory Management
• Goals of memory management
• Address resolution
• Memory allocation
• contiguous vs. Non-contiguous
• Fragmentation
• Virtual memory