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AY2015/2016 Semester 2
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 | COMMON LEC (CS3) 0930-1030 Mon LT2A | 10211 TUT (FSP1) 0930-1030 Tue TR18 Wk2-13 | 10258 TUT (FSP1) 0930-1030 Tue TR18 Wk2-13 | 10260 TUT (FSP1) 0930-1030 Tue TR18 Wk2-13 | 10506 TUT (FSP1) 0930-1030 Tue TR18 Wk2-13 | 10621 TUT (FSP1) 0930-1030 Tue TR18 Wk2-13 | 10216 TUT (FSP6) 0930-1030 Thu TR+31 Wk2-13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1030 | 10215 LAB (FSP5) 1030-1230 Mon HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10216 LAB (FSP6) 1030-1230 Mon HWLAB2 Odd Weeks | 10243 LAB (SS3) 1030-1230 Mon HWLAB2 Odd Weeks | 10524 LAB (FSP5) 1030-1230 Mon HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10573 LAB (FSP5) 1030-1230 Mon HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10581 LAB (SS3) 1030-1230 Mon HWLAB2 Odd Weeks | 10621 LAB (FSP5) 1030-1230 Mon HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10242 LAB (SS2) 1030-1230 Tue HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10258 LAB (SS2) 1030-1230 Tue HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10214 TUT (FSP4) 1030-1130 Thu TR+32 Wk2-13 | 10585 TUT (FSP4) 1030-1130 Thu TR+32 Wk2-13 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1330 | 10242 TUT (SS2) 1330-1430 Tue TR16 Wk2-13 | 10637 TUT (SS2) 1330-1430 Tue TR16 Wk2-13 | 10244 TUT (SS4) 1330-1430 Wed TR+31 Wk2-13 | 10501 TUT (SS4) 1330-1430 Wed TR+31 Wk2-13 | 10515 TUT (SS4) 1330-1430 Wed TR+31 Wk2-13 | 10212 TUT (FSP2) 1330-1430 Thu TR+37 Wk2-13 | 10596 TUT (FSP2) 1330-1430 Thu TR+37 Wk2-13 | 10213 TUT (FSP3) 1330-1430 Fri TR+9 Wk2-13 | 10496 TUT (FSP3) 1330-1430 Fri TR+9 Wk2-13 | 10581 TUT (FSP3) 1330-1430 Fri TR+9 Wk2-13 | 10636 TUT (FSP3) 1330-1430 Fri TR+9 Wk2-13 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1430 | 10517 TUT (SS1) 1430-1530 Mon TR17 Wk2-13 | 10524 TUT (SS1) 1430-1530 Mon TR17 Wk2-13 | 10243 TUT (SS3) 1430-1530 Tue TR18 Wk2-13 | 10573 TUT (SS3) 1430-1530 Tue TR18 Wk2-13 | 10213 LAB (FSP3) 1430-1630 Wed HWLAB2 Odd Weeks | 10214 LAB (FSP4) 1430-1630 Wed HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10260 LAB (FSP3) 1430-1630 Wed HWLAB2 Odd Weeks | 10496 LAB (FSP4) 1430-1630 Wed HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10501 LAB (FSP3) 1430-1630 Wed HWLAB2 Odd Weeks | 10506 LAB (FSP4) 1430-1630 Wed HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10515 LAB (FSP4) 1430-1630 Wed HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10517 LAB (FSP3) 1430-1630 Wed HWLAB2 Odd Weeks | 10596 LAB (FSP4) 1430-1630 Wed HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10636 LAB (FSP4) 1430-1630 Wed HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10211 LAB (FSP1) 1430-1630 Thu HWLAB2 Odd Weeks | 10212 LAB (FSP2) 1430-1630 Thu HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10244 LAB (SS4) 1430-1630 Thu HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10585 LAB (SS4) 1430-1630 Thu HWLAB2 Even Weeks | 10637 LAB (FSP1) 1430-1630 Thu HWLAB2 Odd Weeks | COMMON LEC (CS3) 1430-1530 Fri LT2A | |||||||||||
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