Computer Hardware Maintenance

Overview of Concepts and key terminologies; Electrostatic discharge (ESD), Cases and Form factor, Power Supply; Connectors, Voltage, Motherboard and Components, Chipsets and Form factors, CPU, Cooling System, Computer circuits, Diode array, PIAs etc, Integrated circuits fabrication process. Use of Small, Medium, Large and Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits, hardware design, Memories: Primary and Secondary memories, core memory etc, Magnetic devices; disks, tapes, video disks, etc, Peripheral devices, printers, CRTs, keyboards, character recognition. Operational amplifiers, Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-analog converter