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AY2019/2020 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 |
| Exam |
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| 1800 |
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| 930 | COMMON LEC (CS3) 0930-1030 Mon LT2A, LT20 Wk1-7, Teaching Wk8-13 | COMMON LEC (CS3) 0930-1030 Mon LT2A, LT20 Wk1-7, Teaching Wk8-13 | 13837 TUT (BCG3) 0930-1030 Tue TR+16 Wk2-13 | ||||||
| 1000 | |||||||||
| 1030 | 13837 LAB (BCG3) 1030-1130 Fri HWLAB3 Even Weeks | ||||||||
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| 1130 | 13837 LAB (BCG3) 1130-1230 Fri HWLAB3 Even Weeks | ||||||||
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| 1300 | |||||||||
| 1330 | 10260 TUT (SSR1) 1330-1430 Tue TR+9 Wk2-13 | ||||||||
| 1400 | |||||||||
| 1430 | 10259 LAB (SSA1) 1430-1530 Wed HWLAB1 Even Weeks | 10260 LAB (SSR1) 1430-1530 Thu HWLAB3 Odd Weeks | 10261 LAB (SSR2) 1430-1530 Thu HWLAB3 Even Weeks | COMMON LEC (CS3) 1430-1530 Fri LT10, LT2A Wk8-13, Teaching Wk1-7 | COMMON LEC (CS3) 1430-1530 Fri LT10, LT2A Wk8-13, Teaching Wk1-7 | ||||
| 1500 | |||||||||
| 1530 | 10259 LAB (SSA1) 1530-1630 Wed HWLAB1 Even Weeks | 10260 LAB (SSR1) 1530-1630 Thu HWLAB3 Odd Weeks | 10261 LAB (SSR2) 1530-1630 Thu HWLAB3 Even Weeks | 10259 TUT (SSA1) 1530-1630 Fri TR+15 Wk2-13 | |||||
| 1600 | |||||||||
| 1630 | 10261 TUT (SSR2) 1630-1730 Fri TR+15 Wk2-13 | ||||||||
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| 1830 | COMMON LEC (PT4) 1830-2130 Mon TR+15 Wk2,11,13 | COMMON LEC (PT4) 1830-2030 Mon TR+15, HWLAB1 Wk4,6,8,10, Teaching Wk3,5,7,9,12 | 14510 LAB (PT4) 1830-2030 Mon TR+15, HWLAB1 Wk4,6,8,10, Teaching Wk3,5,7,9,12 | ||||||
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| 2030 | 14510 TUT (PT4) 2030-2130 Mon TR+15 Wk3-10,12 | ||||||||
| 2100 | |||||||||
