CONTENTS
UNTT 1 Fundamental Logic Elements
1-1 Types of Logic and Memory Devices
1-2 Logic Elements
1-3 Flip-Flops and Register Memory (RM)
Exercises
UNTT 2 The Digital Computer
2-1 Two Main Groups of Computers
2-2 The Digital Computer
2-3 Mainframe, Mini and Micro
Exercises
UNIT 3 Two Types of Central Processor
3-1 The Structure of CPU
3-2 The Complex Instmction Set Computer--CISC
3-3 Definition of Reduced Instruction Set Computer-RISC
Exercises
UNIT 4 The Memory Hierarchy
4-1 Primary-Memory Organization
4-2 The Cache
4-3 Virtual-Memory Methods
Exercises
UNTT 5 Input/Output and Other Processors
5-1 Extemal Devices and Their Control
5-2 1/0 Devices
5-3 Peripheral-Device Controllers
5-4 I/0 Character Information in Codes
Exercises
UNTT 6 Operating System
6-1 What Is an Operating System?
6-2 Operating System Structure
6-3 Windows 95 v. DOS and Windows 3.x
6-4 A Brief Introduction on Windows NT
Exercises
UNTT7 Programming
7-1 Programming Languages
7-2 The Need for a New Style of Programming
7-3 What Is Object-orientation?
7-4 Visual Programming
7-5 What Is Java?
Exercises
UNTT 8 Data Base Management Systems
8-1 Data Base Management Systems
8-2 Data Base Management System Characteristics
8-3 Data Models
Exercises
UNIT 9 Parallel Processing
9-1 What Is Parallel Processing?
9-2 Parallel Architectures and Algorithms for Digital Image Processing
9-3 Parallel Operating System
Exercises
UNIT 10 Data Integrity and Security
10-1 Data Integrity and Security
10-2 Availability, Validity, Integrity, Security and Privacy
10-3 Disaster Planning
Exercises
UNTT 11 Infonnation Networks and Protocols
11-1 Computer Networks
11-2 Network Topologies
11 -3 The Intemet and Other Networks
11-4 What Is TCP/IP?
Exercises
UNIT 12 Multimedia
12-1 What Is Multimedia?
12-2 Multimedia Hardware
12-3 Multimedia Networking
12-4 Multimedia Software: Applications
12-5 Defining Hypertext, Hypermedia and Multimedia
READING MATERIAL: Multimedia Software: Environments
Exercises
UNTT 13 Artificial Intelligence
13-1 Artificial Intelligence
13-2 Knowledge-based Expert Systems
13-3 Conventional Programming Versus Knowledge Engineering
Exercises
UNIT 14 Image Processing
14-1 Representation of Images
14-2 Image Data Compression
14-3 A Basic Image Processing System
READING MATERIAL: Generating the Huffman Code
Exercises
UNIT 15 ISDN
15-1 Introduction of ISDN
15-2 ISDN Integrated Access
15-3 What ISDN Is and Isn' t?
15-4 B-ISDN
READING MATERIAL: Comparison of B-ISDN With ISDN
Exercises
UNIT 16 Satellites
16-1 Satellite Fundamentals
16-2 Uplinks and Downlinks
16-3 Satellite Antenna Design
16-4 Two-degree Satellite Spacing and the Antenna Perfonnance Standard
Exercises
UNIT 17 Optical Fiber Communications
17-1 The General System
17-2 Advantages of Optical Fiber Conmiunication
17-3 Historical Development
Exercises
UNIT 18 Synchronous Digital Transmission
18-1 Fundamental Concept of SDT
18-2 Overview of SDH
18-3 Characteristics of Synchronous Digital Transmission
READING MATERIAL: Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Exercises
UNIT 19 Broadband Telecommunications
19-1 Introduction to Broadband Telecommunications
19-2 Technologies in Telecommunication Networks
19-3 WDM Point-to-point Links
Exercises
UNTT 20 Introduction to Mobile Communications
20-1 Mobile Radio System Fundamentals
20-2 Practical Communication Systems
20-3 Area Coverage techniques
Exercises
Answers/習題解答
Translations for Texts (Partial) /參考譯文?(部分)
BibUography/參考文獻
List of New Words/生詞錶
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