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AY2015/2016 Semester 1
Processor System Design: CPU interfaces, clock, control, data & address bus; System firmware. The CPU Architecture: including ISA, compiler relationship, control, pipelining, hazards, CISC/RISC/VLIW and issues of ILP. Memory Systems: cache, virtual memory systems and the MMU, access methods, reliability, error detection/correction. Performance Enhancements: superscalar; branching issues, multithreading, scalability, co-processors and enhancement units. Interfacing and Communications: I/O fundamentals, interrupts and interfacing, buses, protocols and arbitration. Computer Arithmetic: range, precision, real numbers, floating point and conversion, multi-precision arithmetic Multiprocessing: multiprocessing architectures and interconnections, shared memory and coherence, memory solutions Future directions: low power computing; testing, JTAG, system-on-chip and multi-core implementations, embedded systems issues, comparison of computational on CPU, DSP, FPGA and GPU.
| AUs | 3.0 AUs |
| Categories | CoreBDE |
| Not Available To Programme | BCE, CE, CEEC |
| Not Available To All Programme With | (Admyr 2004-2010) |
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| 930 | 10369 TUT (BCG3) 0930-1030 Tue TR+58 Wk2-13 | 10367 TUT (TS2) 0930-1030 Wed TR+5 Wk2-13 | |||||||||||
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| 1030 | 10365 TUT (SSP5) 1030-1130 Mon TR+48 Wk2-13 | 10363 LAB (SSP3) 1030-1230 Wed HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10367 LAB (TS2) 1030-1230 Fri HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10369 LAB (BCG3) 1030-1230 Fri HWLAB2 Even Weeks | |||||||||
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| 1230 | 10365 LAB (SSP5) 1230-1430 Mon HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10364 LAB (SSP4) 1230-1430 Wed HWLAB2 Odd Weeks | 10700 LAB (SSP4) 1230-1430 Wed HWLAB2 Odd Weeks | 10722 LAB (SSP4) 1230-1430 Wed HWLAB2 Odd Weeks | |||||||||
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| 1430 | 10368 TUT (TS3) 1430-1530 Tue TR+45 Wk2-13 | 10722 TUT (TS3) 1430-1530 Tue TR+45 Wk2-13 | 10361 LAB (SSP1) 1430-1630 Thu HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10362 LAB (SSP2) 1430-1630 Thu HWLAB2 Odd Weeks | 10364 TUT (SSP4) 1430-1530 Thu TR+37 Wk2-13 | COMMON LEC (CS3) 1430-1530 Fri LT4, LT2A Wk4-13, Teaching Wk1-3 | COMMON LEC (CS3) 1430-1530 Fri LT4, LT2A Wk4-13, Teaching Wk1-3 | ||||||
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| 1530 | COMMON LEC (CS3) 1530-1630 Mon LT5, LT2A Wk4-13, Teaching Wk1-3 | COMMON LEC (CS3) 1530-1630 Mon LT5, LT2A Wk4-13, Teaching Wk1-3 | 10363 TUT (SSP3) 1530-1630 Thu TR18 Wk2-13 | 10700 TUT (SSP3) 1530-1630 Thu TR18 Wk2-13 | 10361 TUT (SSP1) 1530-1630 Fri LT10 Wk2-13 | ||||||||
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