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EET 450

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Assignment

1

9/5 – 9/7

Introduction

Read Chapter 1

2

9/11

Chapter 1: Overview Read Chapter 2
9/13 Chapter 2: How S/W and H/W work together Read Chapter 3 - start research on motherboards/chipsets

3

9/18

Chapter 3: The main board

Research Chipsets

9/20   Board of Regents: No class Research Motherboard choices

4

9/25

Discussion of board choices

Chipsets

Read Chapter 4

9/27   Chapter 4 - Memory Read Mass Storage, Read Tom's Hardware on Memory, Research memory packages (paper) 

5

10/1

Mass Storage  
10/5   Hard Disk Drives  
6  

10/8 ABET visit 10/6-10/9  

10/10  

Optical Drives (CD/R/RW/DVD) Read Ch11

7

10/15

Power Supplies/Cases Read Ch9:p489..
10/17   Video Adapters Research Video Displays & Adapters

Research Topic Due 

8

10/22

Video Display Equipment Read Ch9:serial ports  Video Research Due

10/24  

Interfaces - Serial  

9

10/29

Interfaces - Parallel/Other

Read Ch 18: Printers/ Notebooks

10/31  

Printers/Plotters Read Ch10: Multimedia

10

11/5

Election Day - no class

Read Ch 8: Troubleshooting

11/9  

Assembly Demonstration  Read Ch 15: building your own PC

Research test utilities

11

11/12

Sound

 

11/14 

Troubleshooting Take Quiz 1Too Late!

12

11/19

Silicon Run I

Read Ch 17: Networks

11/21  

Board of Regents - Assembly/Testing  

13

11/26

Assembly / Testing lab

Networks

Read Ch 18: Viruses, etc.

11/28  

Thanksgiving 28/29  

14

12/3

Viruses, security, etc. Read Ch 16: Modems

12/5

Modems  

15

12/10

Research Paper Due

 
12/12   Exam Review  

16

12/16 – 12/20

Final Exams Week