Connect Hardware Peripheral Devices

Objectives

 To learn the competency required to

identify and connect hardware
peripherals according to instructions
and a workstation or networked
computer to the internet.

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 What is a peripheral device?
 A peripheral device is generally defined as any
auxiliary device such as a computer mouse or keyboard that
connects to and works with the computer in some way.
Examples of peripherals are image scanners, tape drives,
microphones, loudspeakers, webcams, and digital cameras.
(Source: wikipedia).
 A peripheral device connects to a computer system to add
functionality.

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 Warm up?
 Name 5 other examples of peripheral devices and their use
other than the ones mentioned in the previous definition slide:-
1) ?
2) ?
3) ?
4) ?
5) ?

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 Obtaining a Peripheral Device
 Searching the Internet
 PC Magazines
 Newspapers
 Brochures / Advertising material
 Telephone Directory

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Choosing a Supplier

 How long has the supplier been operating?

 Does the supplier offer suitable support and training?
 Does the supplier offer competitive pricing?
 Is the supplier a preferred supplier for your organization

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Documenting Peripherals

Manufacturer:
Details for Administrator PC
Dell
Model: OptiPlex GX280MT Minitower—Power

Operating System: Windows XP

Serial number: 12345

RAM: 128 Mb

Hard disk space: 160 Gb

Monitor: Dell UltraSharp™ 1905FP flat panel,

Printer: HP LaserJet IID

Keyboard: Dell USB keyboard

Pointing device: Dell USB 2-button optical mouse with scroll

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Checking Contents of Peripheral Device

Below is a sample checklist for a typical inkjet printer .

 printer
 cartridge
 power cable
 USB cable
 sample paper
 feeding device
 CD driver

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Computer Peripherals Ports

PC peripheral ports

Power Supply

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Plugging Cables b/w Device and PC

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Plugging Cables b/w Device and PC

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Computer Peripherals Ports

USB Cable

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Computer Peripherals Ports

Speaker headset

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Computer Peripherals Ports

Power Cable

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Computer Peripherals Ports

Printer Cable

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Device Drivers

 A program to tell the system software how to

work with that piece of hardware
 Some common device drivers are built in the
system software (Operating System) e.g.
keyboard and mouse drives

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Plug-n-Play Devices

 Devices designed such that Windows can

detect them, install and configure the device
driver automatically
 For non plug-n-play devices, we have to install
and configure the device driver manually.

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Input Devices (1)

 Keyboard
– P/S2 keyboard
– USB keyboard
– Wireless keyboard

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Input Devices (2)

 Pointing Devices
– Mouse, trackball, touch pad, light pen, digitizer
– Touch screen

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Input Devices (3)

 Scanning devices
– Image scanner
– Fax machine – scan image to bitmap
– Bar code scanner – scan Universal Product Code
(UPC)

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Input Devices (4)

 Voice Input Device

– Microphone – to receive the sound signal
– Sound card – to convert the sound signal to digital
form
– Use speech recognition software to recognize
human speech

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Output Devices (1)

 Visual Display Unit (VDU)

– Commonly called monitor
 2 common types of monitor
– CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) monitor
 High radiation and bulky
– LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) monitor
 No radiation and slim

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Output Devices (2)

 Printer – to produce hard copy

 Laser printer
– to produce high quality output
– resolution up to 2400 dpi (dot per inch)
– use carbon toner, usually for black and white
printout, colour is very expensive

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Output Devices (2)

 Laser printer

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Output Devices (3)

 Inkjet printer
– produce good quality colour output
– resolution up to 1440 dpi
– use ink droplets to compose the image
– The printer is much cheaper than laser printer but
the ink is very expensive

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Output Devices (3)

 Inkjet printer

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Output Devices (4)

 Dot matrix printer

– Use impact principle
– Can print multiple (carbon) copies at a time, usually
use in printing invoices
– The ink ribbon is cheap
– Poor quality of printout

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Output Devices (4)

 Dot matrix printer

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Output Devices (5)

 Plotter
– Drawing high quality image, use colour pens, can
draw smooth curves
– Can print on large paper size, use roll of paper
– To draw posters and maps
– Use in CAD (Computer Aided Design)

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Output Devices (5)

 Plotter

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Output Device (6)

 Voice output devices

– Sound card, to convert computer signals to sound
– Speakers, to amplify the sound output

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Types of Storage Devices (Secondary)

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Storage Devices (1)
 Magnetic tapes: Similar to audio tapes, SASD
 Magnetic discs: Hard disk, DASD
 RAID: Redundant array of independent
inexpensive disks
– Data stored more than once in one of the disks
– Even if one disk fails, data can still be retrieved
 SAN: Storage area network
– Consist of many storage devices
 Optical discs, DASD
– CD-ROM
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Storage Devices (2)
 Hard Disk
– High storage capacity, over 100 GB
– Hard metallic surface
– Consists of several metallic disks
– Data are stored in cylinder (a deck of tracks)
– Use magnetic technology
– Very high access speed
– Random access

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Storage Devices (2)
 Hard Disk

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 Storage Device (3)
 Optical disk
– CDROM, DVDROM, CDRW, DVDRW
– Use optical technology, laser reflection on pits
– ‘1’ will reflect the laser beam while ‘0’ does not
– High storage capacity, 700 MB for a CDROM,
17GB for a DVDROM
– Random access
– High access speed

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 Storage Device (3)
 Optical disk (Digital Versatile Player) - DVD

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 Storage Device (4)
 Tape
– Cheap
– Sequential access
– Use magnetic technology
– Ideal for backup data, we need to backup and restore all
data
– High storage capacity
– Slow access speed
– Group of records are stored in a block
– Inter-block gaps are needed for stopping and starting the
read/write head.

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Storage Device (5)

 Other Storage devices – can be read/write

 Removable disks -Zip disk(100/250MB),
superdisk (120MB), Jazz disk(1GB)
 Flash memory cards – compact flash, smart
media and memory stick, commonly used in
digital camera

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Storage Device (5)

 ZIP Drive

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Network Devices (1)
 Network Interface Card (NIC) (LAN card)
– Connection between the network and the computer bus
– Have built-in transceiver, for data transmitting and receiving
– Usually 100 MB/s
 Wireless LAN card
– Usually 11 MB/s
– Work within the distance range, and no blocking in between.

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Network Devices (2)

 Connectors
 RJ-45 internet jack connector
– For connecting twisted pairs LAN cable
 BNC connector
– For connecting coaxial cables

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Network Device (3)

 Terminators
– Use in bus network, to prevent signal rebounce and
echo at the ends of bus.

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Network Device (4)
 Hub
– To connect the workstations within a room on same
floor
 Switch
– To connect the workstations for different floors in a
building, it is faster and more efficient than a Hub.
 Router
– To connect different LANs together to form a Wide
Area Network (WAN)

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Network Device (5)

 Repeater
– When a network spans a long distance, the signal
weaken, repeater is used to reproduce the signal.
 Exchange
– To boost the signals along the network path for a
Wide Area Network.

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Network Device (6)
 Computer
– Different computers play different roles on a network
 Server
– Provide services to other computers connected to
the network, usually have higher processing power
and larger storage capacity.
 Workstation
– The computers connected to the network but not act
as a server.

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Network Device (7) - Servers
 File server
– control the sharing and access of files over the network,
must have a huge storage capacity.

 Print server
– Manage the print jobs from different computers to different
network printers, and manage the print queues.
 Web server
– To host a web site and publish web pages on the web,
support HTML, Java script, CGI, PHP and ASP web
languages
 Email server
– To store, send and receive emails over the Internet
 Internet server
– To provide Internet access

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Communication Device

 Modem - Modulator-demodulator
– It transforms digital signals of computer to analog
signals to be transmitted through telephone lines.
(Modulation)
– It also transforms analog signals back to digital
signals for the computer that receives the signals.
(Demodulation)

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 Data/Signal Rate
 Data Rate
– Refer to the no. of bits per second sent
 Signaling Rate (Baud Rate)
– Refer to the no. of signals per second sent
– Each signal may consists of several bits e.g. 101
 Bandwidth
– The frequency range of a particular media
– is directly proportional to the data rate
– amount of transferrable data in fixed amount of time
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 Types of network
 Client-Server Network
– Some computers act as server to provide services to clients
on the network
– Server programs are running on the server
– Client programs are running on client computers
 Peer-to-peer Network
– Every computer plays the same role in the network. They
form a workgroup, no server and no client
– The security in a peer-to-peer network is low.
– It is easy to set up, since no server programs or client
programs need to be run.

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End of Session

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