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| | INFS6210 Study Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Predominance of digital signaling and data representation in current computer technology: most cost-efficient trade-off in signal/processing capacity, accuracy, reliability, and cost; maximal protection against data transmission errors; relative ease of designing and fabricating two-state electric devices, binary values correspond to values in Boolean logic. |
 | | Data structures: pointers and addresses, arrays and lists (role of contiguous storage), linked list (singly, doubly), records, files, associative (global) arrays (in M, using hierarchical structures as an alternative to the file/record approach as the basis for the application programming interface), indexes. |
 | | Data transmission concepts: digital, analog, communication channel (sender/medium/receiver), effective data transfer rate, bandwidth, modem, attenuation, simplex/half-duplex/duplex, serial/parallel, channel sharing (multiplexing and switching), clock synchronization, asynchronous vs. synchronous, error detection and parity, LRC, CRC. |
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