SCHEME/SYLLABUS : MCA(SE)
(First Semester)

Computers, capabilities, types of computers, computer anatomy, functional, block diagrams, CPU purpose of registers in CPU, Microprocessors, CISC & RISC Processors, Functions of I/O devices, VDU, storage devices, Areas of applications in information technology.

Unit II: (Qualitative treatment only)

Introduction to flow charts and algorithms, Machine language, instructions, stored program, concept of assembly language, assembler, high level language, compiler, operating systems, types of OS, typical instructions of DOS/UNIX, GUI-Windows 98/NT

Unit III:

Introduction to signals and basic communication processes, trigonometric and exponential fourier series, representation of periodic functions by fourier series, fourier transforms, impulse functions, concept of convolution in time domain and frequency domain, noise, types of noise, S/N ratio, noise figure.

Unit IV:

Internet & world wide web, IT today, word processing and desk top publishing, spread sheet and data base applications, multimedia, Introduction to Telecommunication, communication network architecture, structure of telecommunication networks, transmission media, modulation, multiplexing, modems, ISDN, Elementary ideas of wireless services: TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, WLL.

Text:

1. A. Leon and M. Leon, “Fundamentals of Information Technology”, Vikas Publishing House.
2. Norton Peter, “Introduction to Computers”, 2/e McGraw Hill.
3. Simon Haykins, “Communication Systems”, John Wiley and Sons
4. James Martin, “Telecommunications and the compute”, PHI, India.

References:

1. A. Leon and M. Leon, “Introduction to Computers”, Vikas Publishing HOuse
2. Rajaraman V., “Fundamentals of Computers”, PHI
3. Sanders D. H., “Computers Today”, McGraw Hill.
4. Rappaport Theodore, “Wireless communications”, Pearson Education, India.

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