1 Information- Definition, Characteristics and Interpretation, Data and Its logical and physical concepts, 2 Computers: History of Computers and their classification, Basic Organization, 3 Memory, Primary- RAM, ROM, EPROM, Secondary- Magnetic-Floppy and Hard Disks, Optical - CDROM, WORM, Concept of Virtual Memory and Cache Memory and why are they needed, I/O Devices, 4 Computer Operation, Instruction Cycle, Program flow of control with and without interrupts, 5 Computer Arithmetic, Number systems Decimal, Binary, Octal, Hexadecimal and their conversion, Binary Addition, Subtraction and Multiplication, Floating point representation and arithmetic, 6 Computer Language, Introduction to computer language, Definition of assembler, compiler and Interpreter, 7 TeleCommunication, Concept of Analog and Digital Signal, Channel Capacity(Shannon’s Theorem), Transmission Impairments, Concept of Signal to Noise ratio, Encoding/Decoding(Concept of Parity bit, Hamming Code),, Transmission Media, A/D and D/A conversion, Modulation, 8 Communication technique, circuit, message, 9 packet switching, their advantages and disadvantages, Type of Networks (LAN, MAN, WAN etc), Topologies, 10 Network configuration, Basic Protocols OSI, TCP/IP, Token ring, 11 Internet, introduction to internet terminologies and concept of WWW, HTTP, Email, GIAS, Search engine, Domain name, FDM/TDM, Sampling theorem, PAM, PWM, PDM, PPM, 12 Digital electronic signals and switches, concept on digital signal, logic levels, Active high, Active low signals, Transistor, 13 Logic Gates, AND operations and their truth table, OR operations and their truth table, NOT operations and their truth table, NOR operations and their truth table, EX-OR operations and their truth table, EX-NOR operations and their truth table, Boolean Algebra and reduction techniques- K- Maps, 14 Complement Subtraction Circuits, Half Adder, Full Adder, Half Subtracter, Full Subtractor, Various Code convertors, 15 Multiplexers (MUX), Working of MUX, Implementation of expression using MUX, 16 Demultiplexers (DEMUX), Implementation of expression using DEMUX, Decoder, 17 FLIP FLOPS -Concepts, S-R, J-K, Preset and Clear, Master-Slave J-K D,T,, Flip Flops with truth table, 18 Introduction to 8085 microprocessor, Organization of microprocessor based system, 8085 microprocessor Architecture, Concepts of Address line and memory interfacing, 19 Instruction Format Modern day computer System, Organization and Architecture, Structure and Function, System buses, Input/output modules, 20 Concept of parallel processing, Multiprocessing -Organization, Time-Shared Bus, Multiport Memory, Central Control Unit, Pipelining.
