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AY2021/2022 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 2021-onwards) |
| Not Available As PE To Programme | REP(ASEN), REP(BIE), REP(CBE), REP(CE), REP(CVEN), REP(EEE), REP(ENE), REP(MAT), REP(ME) |
| Mutually Exclusive With | SC3050 |
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| 830 | 10302 LAB (SS3) 0830-1020 Wed HWLAB1 Even Weeks | 10303 LAB (SS4) 0830-1020 Wed HWLAB1 Odd Weeks | 10631 LAB (SS4) 0830-1020 Wed HWLAB1 Odd Weeks | ||||||||||||
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| 930 | 10300 TUT (SS1) 0930-1020 Wed TR+4 Wk2-13 | 10306 TUT (SS7) 0930-1020 Fri TR+33 Wk2-13 | |||||||||||||
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| 1030 | COMMON LEC (CS3) 1030-1120 Mon ONLINE | 10300 LAB (SS1) 1030-1220 Tue HWLAB1 Odd Weeks | 10301 LAB (SS2) 1030-1220 Tue HWLAB1 Even Weeks | 10314 TUT (SSP5) 1030-1120 Tue TR+35 Wk2-13 | 10301 TUT (SS2) 1030-1120 Wed TR+20 Wk2-13 | 10307 TUT (SS8) 1030-1120 Fri TR+20 Wk2-13 | |||||||||
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| 1130 | 10312 TUT (SSP3) 1130-1220 Mon TR+17 Wk2-13 | 10315 TUT (SSP6) 1130-1220 Tue TR+36 Wk2-13 | COMMON LEC (CS3) 1130-1220 Wed ONLINE | 10308 LAB (SS9) 1130-1320 Fri HWLAB3 Even Weeks | 10309 LAB (SS10) 1130-1320 Fri HWLAB3 Odd Weeks | ||||||||||
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| 1230 | 10313 TUT (SSP4) 1230-1320 Mon TR+17 Wk2-13 | 10306 LAB (SS7) 1230-1420 Tue HWLAB1 Odd Weeks | 10307 LAB (SS8) 1230-1420 Tue HWLAB1 Even Weeks | 10310 LAB (SSP1) 1230-1420 Thu HWLAB1 Odd Weeks | 10311 LAB (SSP2) 1230-1420 Thu HWLAB1 Even Weeks | 10309 TUT (SS10) 1230-1320 Thu TR+7 Wk2-13 | |||||||||
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| 1330 | 10308 TUT (SS9) 1330-1420 Thu TR+7 Wk2-13 | 10575 TUT (SS9) 1330-1420 Thu TR+7 Wk2-13 | 10304 TUT (SS5) 1330-1420 Fri TR+16 Wk2-13 | ||||||||||||
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| 1430 | 10312 LAB (SSP3) 1430-1620 Mon HWLAB1 Odd Weeks | 10313 LAB (SSP4) 1430-1620 Mon HWLAB1 Even Weeks | 10304 LAB (SS5) 1430-1620 Tue HWLAB1 Odd Weeks | 10305 LAB (SS6) 1430-1620 Tue HWLAB1 Even Weeks | 10575 LAB (SS6) 1430-1620 Tue HWLAB1 Even Weeks | 10314 LAB (SSP5) 1430-1620 Wed HWLAB1 Odd Weeks | 10315 LAB (SSP6) 1430-1620 Wed HWLAB1 Even Weeks | 10303 TUT (SS4) 1430-1520 Wed LHN-B1-15 Wk2-13 | 10311 TUT (SSP2) 1430-1520 Wed TR+19 Wk2-13 | 10305 TUT (SS6) 1430-1520 Fri TR+16 Wk2-13 | 10631 TUT (SS6) 1430-1520 Fri TR+16 Wk2-13 | ||||
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| 1530 | 10302 TUT (SS3) 1530-1620 Wed TR+6 Wk2-13 | 10310 TUT (SSP1) 1530-1620 Wed TRX44 Wk2-13 | |||||||||||||
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